Straight Razor with Celluloid Handle
Straight Razor with Celluloid Handle
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- Description
- The inscriptions on one side of the blade of this straight razor read “CARBO MAGNETIC / REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.” and “60 Griffon XX.” Those on the case reads “Griffon / XX” and “TRADE MARK.” The handle is celluloid.
- Alfred Lyman Silberstein (1866-1935) was born in Prussia, came to the U.S. as a young child, and established the Griffon Cutlery Works in New York in 1888. He introduced the term “Carbo-Magnetic” in 1895 and trademarked it in 1905. And he explained that “Fire heat is never uniform; electricity can be exactly measured and regulated as desired. That is why the electric tempering of the Carbo-Magnetic Razor Blade is absolutely uniform from end to end.”
- Ref: Griffon Cutlery Works advertisement in McClures Magazine 36 (1911): 64.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- straight razor
- straight razor with celluloid handle
- place made
- Germany
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (handle material)
- metal (razor material)
- cardboard (box material)
- Measurements
- overall: 17.2 cm x 2.9 cm x 1.5 cm; 6 3/4 in x 1 1/8 in x 9/16 in
- overall: 11/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 1.74625 cm x 17.4625 cm x 3.175 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.1598
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.1598
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- Credit Line
- Dadie and Norman B. Perlov
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Celluloid
- Clothing & Accessories
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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