Gillette 1904 Double Ring Post Clean - Picture Heavy

**Mark1966** · 06-19-2012, 03:33 PM

Yep - one of the best most complete sets I've seen - congrats on a good clean up too!

**tootootni** · 06-19-2012, 03:36 PM

Great find.......thank you for sharing it!

**chuckman** · 06-19-2012, 05:02 PM

What a beauty! Thanks for sharing.

**AceByTerror** · 06-19-2012, 06:59 PM

Agree. Do not replate. Great score and keep it safe for your ancestors!

**MacDaddy** · 06-19-2012, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by ilpadrino

The front side of the tickets. Notice that the ticket stamped 2 directs the customer to return unsatisfactory blades to 394 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass., whereas the ticket stamped 30 directs the customer to return the blades to 41 W. First St., Boston, Mass..

The ticket stamped 2 is dated Nov 9 - 1904 and the ticket stamped 30 is dated Jan 16 1907.

This is particularly interesting because we know from King Gillette's account in the Gillette Blade that the first of the First Street buildings was bought sometime in the fall of 1904. From your inspector's ticket, we can extrapolate that Gillette was probably still working out of the Atlantic Ave building in some fashion at least as late as November of that year -- that or they were still using old tickets and were having their mail forwarded.

Here are photos of both buildings from that issue of the Blade (you can click through to read the rest of the article):

**Copierguy** · 06-19-2012, 07:01 PM

Beautiful, thanks for posting this.

**BBrad** · 06-19-2012, 07:11 PM

Outstanding!! Congrats!!

**razorx** · 06-19-2012, 07:32 PM

Wow....Incredible,and it's nice to know it's in good hands.

IMHO although well over 100 years have passed since it was manufactured,that Double Ring takes a backseat to no other razor ever produced.

**Manning** · 06-19-2012, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by MacDaddy

This is particularly interesting because we know from King Gillette's account in the Gillette Blade that the first of the First Street buildings was bought sometime in the fall of 1904. From your inspector's ticket, we can extrapolate that Gillette was probably still working out of the Atlantic Ave building in some fashion at least as late as November of that year -- that or they were still using old tickets and were having their mail forwarded.

Here are photos of both buildings from that issue of the Blade (you can click through to read the rest of the article):

Thanks for that link and interesting read.

I was also intrigued by the relation between Sterling Sharpening company and Gillette and how the blade buying/return/sharpening process worked. I looked a bit but couldn't really nail down anything definitive on it.

**Jake** · 06-19-2012, 08:32 PM

That is really history comes alive. What a remarkable set. Congratulations!!

**mblakele** · 06-19-2012, 09:16 PM

Nickerson writes that they did not move into the new factory until April 1905, and did not completely give up work on Atlantic Ave until 1907. It sounds like the machine shop was the last thing to move: presumably it produced honing machines and other tools for First Ave and for the factories in other cities.