Object Details
- Gem Safety Razor Corporation
- Description
- Steel safety razor with a “GEM” inscription. An inscription on the cardboard box reads “We guarantee the perfection / and shave satisfaction of this / Gem Safety Razor and its / marvelous Gem Double-Life / Blade. Gem blades are sold / everywhere and always run / 100% perfect to the package.”
- Ref: Ad for Gem Double Life Blades in Popular Mechanics (Feb. 1926): 162.
- This object is one of over 700 items from Glaser’s Drug Store of Sayre, Pennsylvania. In 1921, Simon Glaser (1860-1936), an immigrant from Russian Poland, established the drug store at 121 West Packer Avenue in Sayre, PA. His son, Sidney Glaser (1899-1992), soon joined him in the business and continued to operate the store until 1961. After retiring, Sidney Glaser retained thousands of products dating from the 1920s – 1960s, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products, and vitamins, and donated many of them to the Smithsonian in 1985.
- Location
- Currently not on view (cardboard box; paper inserts)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Sidney Glaser
- ca 1923
- ID Number
- 1985.0481.230
- accession number
- 1985.0481
- catalog number
- 1985.0481.230
- Object Name
- razor
- personal hygiene product
- Physical Description
- cardboard (packaging material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 3/8 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 3/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 4.7625 cm x 3.4925 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, Brooklyn
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Hair Removal
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Marketed to Men
- Beauty and Health
- Exhibition
- Object Project (razor)
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1378373
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-16d9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
