Picked this up today at a roadside flea market for $1. How old is this NOS?
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What Era are these Blades from?
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I remember seeing these in the 1960s at the grocery while shopping with mom and dad. Dad used Gillette Blue blades for decades.
http://mr-razor.com/Rasierklingen/Rasierklingen.htm is a great resource for these questions.
If you are willing to open the package and slide a blade partway out, you should be able to read the date code and then you will have a year. However we can make some guesses from the packaging. The 1960s and 1970s packages were mostly metal, like the Spoilers, or plastic with labeling molded in. I think the first plastic packages in this style, with adhesive labels, came in ca. 1985 and stuck around until the 1990s or early 2000s.
As far as I know that package is not particularly collectible, so I would open it up and try one. They may shave well.
If you are willing to open the package and slide a blade partway out, you should be able to read the date code and then you will have a year. However we can make some guesses from the packaging. The 1960s and 1970s packages were mostly metal, like the Spoilers, or plastic with labeling molded in. I think the first plastic packages in this style, with adhesive labels, came in ca. 1985 and stuck around until the 1990s or early 2000s.
As far as I know that package is not particularly collectible, so I would open it up and try one. They may shave well.
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