Another #77 / #88 razor arrived in the post yesterday.
There was a lot of tarnish on the head when I received the razor (a bit like in this Mr Razor photo but 10 times worse: http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/The%20N...%20No4.JPG ), and I thought that things didn't look too promising.
A quick polish with some Maas and, as you can see in the photos below, it cleaned up really well.
I do have a couple of questions about it though.
Firstly, for some reason the Gillette logo hasn't been stamped on the top part of the handle (unlike every other #77 / #88 I've seen). I'm not sure if this has any significance or not?
Secondly, the first part of the Pat No. reads 352975/6 whilst other in #77's I've seen
the first part of the Pat No. reads 352975/6/7. Does this mean that the razor I have is an earlier production #77?
I'm aware that Mr Razor's very informative website has a 1933 #77 listed with the first part of the Pat No. reading 352975/6, a 1934 #77 Traveller set with the number listed as 3529756 and a 1934 #88 set with the first part of the Pat No. listed as 352975/6/7, so I'vbe not been able to glean a definitive answer from looking at the examples there.
Any thoughts or ideas relating to the above questions would be most welcome.
There was a lot of tarnish on the head when I received the razor (a bit like in this Mr Razor photo but 10 times worse: http://www.mr-razor.com/Rasierer/The%20N...%20No4.JPG ), and I thought that things didn't look too promising.
A quick polish with some Maas and, as you can see in the photos below, it cleaned up really well.
I do have a couple of questions about it though.
Firstly, for some reason the Gillette logo hasn't been stamped on the top part of the handle (unlike every other #77 / #88 I've seen). I'm not sure if this has any significance or not?
Secondly, the first part of the Pat No. reads 352975/6 whilst other in #77's I've seen
the first part of the Pat No. reads 352975/6/7. Does this mean that the razor I have is an earlier production #77?
I'm aware that Mr Razor's very informative website has a 1933 #77 listed with the first part of the Pat No. reading 352975/6, a 1934 #77 Traveller set with the number listed as 3529756 and a 1934 #88 set with the first part of the Pat No. listed as 352975/6/7, so I'vbe not been able to glean a definitive answer from looking at the examples there.
Any thoughts or ideas relating to the above questions would be most welcome.