Object Details
- Auto Strop Safety Razor Company
- Description
- An inscription in the lid of the case of this safety razor reads “VALET / Auto Strop Razor / MADE IN U.S.A.” That on the razor head reads “Patented / April 9, 1912 / Other patents pending.” Another reads “STAR SUPER. . .” The Autostrop Safety Razor Company, Inc. was established in 1906 by Henry J. Gaisman, R. E. Dwight, H. K. Stockton and Henry Audley in New York City.
- Ref: Full page ad for Valet Auto Strop Razor, “The World’s Fastest Shave,” in Popular Science Monthly (Oct. 1922), p. 81.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1912
- ID Number
- 2012.0046.11
- catalog number
- 2012.0046.11
- accession number
- 2012.0046
- Object Name
- razor kit
- personal hygiene product
- Physical Description
- metal (container material)
- metal (product material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 3 7/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 9.8425 cm x 4.445 cm
- place made
- United States: Delaware, Dover
- 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
- Title
- Valet AutoStrop Razor
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1421119
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-a2f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
