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Gillette Military Razors
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Hi Guys.
Are Khaki sets exclusively service sets, or were they also available to the public? I picked up a Khaki set a few weeks ago, but the interior of the case does not say 'service set' or 'property of USA'. It is complete except for the mirror; would those markings only be on the mirror or on the case interior as well?
One other question... mine also has a 'thumb tack' in the lower left corner & a small hole in the lower right corner where it looks like another tack used to be... what's the purpose of those thumb tacks?
Bill
Are Khaki sets exclusively service sets, or were they also available to the public? I picked up a Khaki set a few weeks ago, but the interior of the case does not say 'service set' or 'property of USA'. It is complete except for the mirror; would those markings only be on the mirror or on the case interior as well?
One other question... mine also has a 'thumb tack' in the lower left corner & a small hole in the lower right corner where it looks like another tack used to be... what's the purpose of those thumb tacks?
Bill
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Regarding the x's... I've seen this before but thought nothing of it.... now you have me wondering! Why are there inked in x's on some of these items (your carved x's are a first, unless I just never noticed them before).
"mine also has a 'thumb tack' in the lower left corner & a small hole in the lower right corner where it looks like another tack used to be... what's the purpose of those thumb tacks?"
to hang the mirror.
to hang the mirror.
Does anyone know if Khaki sets were exclusively military service sets, or if they were also available to the public?
Bill
Bill
Does anyone know if Khaki sets were exclusively military service sets, or if they were also available to the public?
Bill
there are both types. The military set say "Property US Army" and the public set says "Made in USA"
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so in the picture of the 5, what can you tell me about the gillette on the far right? is it indeed ww2? inside, it has the J on far left and opposite that, on far right is a number 1. what is the 1 for? would it be patent one (as patents would expire and start over)? what would be the value? any detail would be greatly appreciated! i was asked to perhaps take it on a television show but have had trouble properly authenticating it and determining a value.I actually have a number of various WWII era razors.
The below is copied from an earlier thread.
Just for conversation sake, here's some WWII era razors I have.
Canadian Schick
Gem Jr. Military
Clix Five Hundred
Star Military - 2nd from right
Simplex Military - Federal Razor Company
The 1 is the quarter it was made in the year. So it would be the first quarter and J is for 1964.
This is the SE section after all...what war do you think?
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WW2. I've seen a few GEM khaki kits pop up on ebay France over the years and they're all identified as WW2.
That a sweet set up never seen them milirary razors before where did you get those and how much did you pay for them
Thanks...picked it up from Canada so an obvious connection there. Mind you the ad posters for a GEM dama khaki service set usually say it's from 1918 and the US entered the war in 1917 so it could be from WW1.
Are you talking to me Josh? Got lucky on fleabay.
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Wow thats a long time ago and it still looks great cool find. Srry took a long time to respond im in school with kids in the home stuff is hectic lol
I strongly suspect that it's WWI... any of the info I've seen shows those to have been made in the 1917 - 1918 era.
New to the forum after looking up some info on an older NDC gold tech. I was looking through my local antique store and found a Navy set. It looks just like the khaki set but states "Navy Set". It is a "Made in the USA" model. Does anyone have any info on this? Very little found on the ol' google machine regarding the Navy version of this. Seems pretty scarce.
I have a near identical razor to your 1943 Service Tech, but the razor is a standard straight knurled 1940's Brit Tech handle, the head is an open comb 40's tech hybrid
here are some examples:
Hello gentlemen, I have what I was told at the time of purchase is a WWII Khaki set. I have only seen one other on eBay in two years. It also was billed as a WWII Khaki set. Can this be true? The razor has a 1918 serial number, and "Property Of US Army" on the bottom of it. Here's some photos-
Yes I know that, that's why I have questions about this set. I've only seen two types of Khaki sets from WWI, and this configuration is not one of them. I suspect the US Army had a batch of these stored after WWI, and when WWII broke out, they reconfigured the Khaki set into the set I have now. As we all know, there were many different razor sets issued during WWII. This must be one of them.
But it doesn't look like the WWII sets either. And a WWII set would have a Tech, not an Old Type. I'd say it's just a variant of the WWI Khaki Sets.
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