It did smell quite a bit like Old Spice. So, that is my guess.
You never cease to amaze me Tony.Doug; Adam; Steve WY; I tell you what guys- the site notification system is fantastic! Without Adam's mention- I would have never known about the post here! The Fuller Brush Company and Stanley Home Products were both competing door-to-door catalogue companies that sold, among a host of other household goods- high quality shaving products. Stanley Home Products was started by Stanley Beverage, who is featured below. Here are excerpts that I posted in my article on the early Gillette Super Speed razor and the Post WWII shaving culture in the United States:
Brushes
Generally, shaving brushes were inexpensive items found at the local five-and-dime department store, or available through such mail-order firms as Sears, Montgomery Ward, or door-to-door through Stanley Home Products or the Fuller Brush Company. The array of manufacturers and styles was almost endless. Brush hair was generally boar bristle, as it was the least expensive and available to most shaving brush consumers locally; but badger hair brushes, or brushes containing a mixture of boar and badger hair, were also purchased as an upgrade. Badger hair was imported from Manchuria in northern China, and was not available for export following the Japanese invasion prior to World War II, and throughout the second World War. Horse hair brushes were still common, offering a go-between to the coarser boar hair and silkier feeling badger hair, and like its boar hair counterpart, easily agitated the surface of the soap in a shaving mug to produce a thicker lather, particularly useful when lathering in your palm, a lathering bowl, or a shaving mug. Nylon was used by some companies and seen as a more modern alternative to traditional animal hair offerings. The horse hair example I use was made by Fuller, and is butterscotch Catalin with a stepped motif common during the Art Deco period leading into the Second World War. Fuller brushes were also available by catalogue or most commonly through their famous door-to-door sales force, as were the shaving brushes offered by Stanhome, or Stanley Home Products. Both Stanley and Fuller made exceptional brushes, and had a widespread following; both companies offering a brush stand that could be purchased separately, on which to air-dry the brush upside-down after use. Just as popular then were brushes with a greater loft height. I was able to locate two new-old-stock boar brushes in this particular style; one made by Stanhome and the other by Fuller. Both were a tan or light butterscotch in color; early plastic or Catalin brush handles can be discolored by prolonged nicotine exposure. Nicotine stains can be easily removed with Mothers Polish or Novus Number 2. Smoking was a widespread practice at the time, and lighting-up during a shave was not uncommon, albeit unsafe. God Bless! Tony Brown RN mgbbrown
and here is more:
Stanley and Fuller, marketing their lines of household wares by using an independent, door-to-door sales force, represented a part of the American culture that was vibrant during this post-war period of economic expansion, and one which made available items not readily found in retail stores. After World War II, Fuller items were sold exclusively house-to-house by a sales force of women, known as"Fullerettes. Stanley Beveridge, who had left his position as Fuller's sales vice president in 1929, had by 1949, employed women as"dealers" to grow sales at his own company, Stanley Home Products. Both firms gained widespread popularity, with Fullers sales force inspiring two comedy films, THE FULLER BRUSH MAN, a 1948 movie starring Red Skelton and Janet Blair, and THE FULLER BRUSH GIRL, a 1950 movie starring Lucille Ball and Eddie Albert. God Bless! Tony Brown RN mgbbrown
More Still:
As I have touched upon earlier in this thread-both the Fuller Brush Company and Stanley Home Products were icons during the early Super Speed period and influenced the shaving culture of the time. A recent acquisition of a Stanhome hostess gift sewing repair kit serves to compliment the collection of their shaving and Dopp kit travel sundries. God Bless! Tony Brown RN mgbbrown
Mr. Beverage is the rather forceful looking man at the podium. Chairman aftershave was quite a popular product in period, and competed well against brands available at the drug store or grocery. Nice find! God Bless! Tony Brown RN mgbbrown View attachment 657821
