Flea Market Find: Schick Injector Imperial Set

My regular Saturday morning stroll through the flea market turned up this beauty...Other than a little tarnishing on the blade cartridge, it hardly looks used. There was a blade in the razor, so it must have been used at least once, but it may have been a "try it once and stick it in the drawer" experiment. I believe this is a "Type E" Schick (no seam on the handle), but if anyone knows differently, please let me know. The dealer wanted $20 for this, but I was able to negotiate it down to $15.









I started cleaning up the blade cartridge with some Maas metal polish, and it's coming along nicely. A little more work and I think I'll have it looking like new.

I also picked up a decent Gem G-Bar SE razor (AKA Heavy Flat Top) for a couple of dollars. There's a little pitting and tarnishing on the top, but otherwise, it's in great condition.

wow!..great score

That is a beautiful Schick, and yes it's an E3, the Imperial set was made in 1939-1940. Be very careful using any kind of polish on the razor itself, the plating is pretty thin on these. Congrats!

Very nice. I never find anything that pretty out on the West Coast.

HoosierTrooper said:

That is a beautiful Schick, and yes it's an E3, the Imperial set was made in 1939-1940. Be very careful using any kind of polish on the razor itself, the plating is pretty thin on these. Congrats!

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Thanks, Tom...you are indeed the master of singled-edged safety razors! And rest-assured that the only thing that will be used to clean that razor is soap and a soft cloth. Removing a few fingerprints was all that was needed.

Very nice find!!!! Indeed!!!

Snargle said:

Thanks, Tom...you are indeed the master of singled-edged safety razors! And rest-assured that the only thing that will be used to clean that razor is soap and a soft cloth. Removing a few fingerprints was all that was needed.

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Are you going to use it?

That Imperial set looks brand new !

Snargle said:

Thanks, Tom...you are indeed the master of singled-edged safety razors! And rest-assured that the only thing that will be used to clean that razor is soap and a soft cloth. Removing a few fingerprints was all that was needed.

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I appreciate that but there are guys here that have forgotten more than I know about them, I just like to blabber on about them.

Nice haul!

Can you still buy blades for it. I talked to a guy at the flea market today and he said he would have one for me next week.

redbike said:

Are you going to use it?

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Of course...that's the whole point of this shaving hobby!

DDH said:

Can you still buy blades for it. I talked to a guy at the flea market today and he said he would have one for me next week.

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Injector blades are still in production, are available in some chain drug stores, and easily over the Internet. I believe most are either the Personna or Schick brands.

That is an awesome case. I love the mirror in it. I've never seen one like that before.

Snargle said:

Of course...that's the whole point of this shaving hobby!

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That's what I like to hear. I have about 40 DE & SE razors - all of which I use. I can't afford and am not inclined to have razors that are so nice I won't use them.

Beautiful type E injector. Nice score my friend.

Beauty for sure, I love that handle, the color is amazing, I have actually seen these in a couple of antique store but never in a case, always loose on it's own.

Great pictures too.

That is a lovely case indeed for the scrappy little Schick!!! Nice catch!

very, very nice grab!

Thanks, guys...I'm not normally an injector shaver, but in this instance, I couldn't walk away from this baby. I don't think it would have lasted long before one of my Central PA compatriots discovered it! I'm looking forward to trying it out...I've got some modern injector blades, and I'm going to leave that old blade cartridge as part of the original set. I'm sure it's going to be a nice shave!

Larry,

A very nice razor indeed. If you should decide not to...

Well, you know where to find me.

Mike