Items by profsaffel

After wet shaving with a variety of vintage Gillettes for nearly two years, I would say I have seen and felt enough of the Techs and Super Speeds from the thirties to the seventies to know where this Gillette Tech three piece black handled 1951 razor stands in the time line. The W1 has two outstanding features: a solid plastic handle and the first dating code, the W-1 date code being the first year and first quarter of stamped date codes for Gillettes (unless you count the partial year...