Object Details
- Schick Laboratories
- Description
- Cardboard package with inscriptions that read “EVERSHARP / SCHICK” and “magazine / razor / blades / not for use / in injector / razors” and “6 / cartridges.” The package contains two metal cylinders.
- Jacob Schick, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, established the Magazine Repeating Razor Co., in Newark, N.J., in 1923. Within a few years, he had filed for patents, and begun producing the injector razor. Eversharp, a firm know for its pens, acquired the firm in 1946, and renamed it the Schick Safety Razor Division of Eversharp, Inc.
- Ref: Jacob Schick, “Safety Razor,” U.S. Patent 1,724,969 (Aug. 20, 1929).
- Ad for Schick Repeating Razor in Life 92 (Nov. 16, 1928): 39.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan & Elaine Levitt
- ID Number
- 1985.0460.238
- catalog number
- 1985.0460.238
- accession number
- 1985.0460
- Object Name
- razor blades
- personal hygiene product
- Object Type
- Personal Hygiene Products
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 5/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.5875 cm
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Removal
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
- Beauty and Health
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_209383
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-dd1b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
