Razor Collection

Female Barber Shaving
A female barber with a Marcel wave hairstyle holds down her client as she gives him a close shave, with a cut-throat razor!

Gillette Razor Advert
Begin early... shave yourself - the Gillette Safety Razor lives up to its name

Valet Auto Strop Razor Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the Valet AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Ltd, the product sharpens itself before each use for a comfortable shave

Lever Brothers Advertisement, Shaving Stick
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting the Lever's Easy Shaving Stick, EASY on the razor, EASY on the chin, EASY on the purse

Comic postcard, Father of twins shaving Date: 20th century

c. 1880s Japan - barbers at work
c.1880s Japan - barbers at work

c. 1890 China - Chinese street vendor - barber
c.1890 China - Chinese types and trades - street vendor - barber

Man in his sick bed surrounded by doting wife, children, and maids. Miseries of Human Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Johnny in the West Indies pursued by a black squadron
English Navy officer fleeing from an angry Massa planter and Quashee enslaved men barndishing cudgels in Jamaica. Captain Newcome waves his bicorn at a rowboat in the bay

Golden-crowned kinglet, Regulus satrapa. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Itinerant Chinese barber ringing finger bells to find customers, QIng Dynasty. He carries a stool and bucket on a bamboo yoke, along with razor, scissors, strop, etc

Victorian scrap, Barber shaving a soldier. 19th century

Hong Kong - Itinerant Chinese Barber in the Street - offering a variety of services including shaving the head, back massage and scraping the eyelids! 1908

Duke of York - Order of the Equatorial Shave
The Duke and Duchess of York left London on 6th January 1927 to head to Australia to open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra They sailed on HMS Renown, a battle-cruiser

A barber squats in the street in Chandni Chouk, Old Delhi, and cuts the hair of a male customer. The barber uses a cut-thoat razor to trim beind the mans ears. Date: 1990

Shaving the Master
The Edwardian butler (Mr. Edgar), in his role as valet, gives the Master of the house (Sir John Olliff-Cooper) his morning shave, using a cut- throat razor. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

An old man in Tbilisi (Tiflis) Georgia having a shave

Comic pictogram on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Page from catalogue of Safety razors 1929
Safety razors, razor strop, stropping machine and assorted scissors set. Products available from the Harrods catalogue cutlery department. Date: 1929

Trade catalogue of mens shaving equipment 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a page selection of shaving equipment. 1911

Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, Replacing those who are at the Front, showing French women taking on mens jobs during the First World War: shaving a man in a barbers shop, punching a travel ticket, selling newspapers

A selection of British Shells Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Gillette razor combination set 1915
Get it today. How much better the choice of christmas gifts is than it used to be! For a man - a Gillette safety razor, instead of the fripperies

Advertisement for Remington shaver -- male and female models (Sandra Paul and Derek Ufton). 1959

Advert for Durham Duplex Safety Razor 1914
A close shave but in comfort with Durham Duplex Safety Razor, the razor which enables you to shave with the barbers diagonal stroke without fera of cutting yourself

A barber sharpens his razors - Adana, Turkey
A barber sharpens his razors on a grindstone turned by his young assistant - Adana, Turkey

Victorian Scrap - Naval Barber. late 19th century

Page from catalogue of safety razors
Page of safety razors for sale Harrods catalogue (1911 - 1912), Cutlery Department. Included on this page are various safety razors and stropping machines. Date: 1911

Safety razor advert, Decca ad, An-on underwear ad
Page of wartime advertisements for the 7 O Clock Safety Razor; Decca, the portable gramophone; and An-on Underwear. 1918

Wills cigarette card - Razor shell. Date: circa 1935

Greetings card in the shape of a razor. Date: circa 1890s

Poster, Gillette Blades. circa 1930s

Snap Playing Card - Man shaving and cutting his chin. circa 1910s

MADRID BARBER 5 / 5 1987
Part of the tiled fascia of a Madrid barber shop: the barber shaves a client with a cut- throat razor. Date: 1987

Young lad using an electric razor. Date: 1970s

Four clowns on a Christmas and New Year card, performing in the circus ring. Date: circa 1890s

Sky Scrapers by Howard K. Elcock
A man in a natty dressing gown shaves in front of a mirror over a sink of steaming, soapy water in a plane high above the skyscrapers of Manhattan. Date: 1929

Illustration, Shaving a horse -- an event which led to an entertaining court case. Date: 1832

Favourite Sayings - Don t cut of your nose
Black and white lantern slide of a man sitting at a table in front of a mirror with a razor to cut of a painted in nose.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Man shaving
Man about to shaving holding his shaver up to his face. Date: 1933

Dangers of using a German razor
Ugh ! Nasty cut ! Serves me right for using a beastly German-made razor. Its a wonder it hasn t slipped and cut my throat before now !

Advert for Star safty razor 1915
Star safety razor, your chum at the front deserves the best that money can buy. With finest sheffield steel hollow- ground blade that lasts a lifetime. 1915

Street barber at work, India. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for 7 o clock safety razor 1915
A safety razor at a popular price which will fulfil the requirements of the most fastidious user. This is the only safty razor selling at less than a quinea that can be stropped without removing

Advert for Clemak safety razor 1915
Supremacy ! British made. Like the British Army, the Clemak has firmly established its ascendency. It may be outnumbered, it cannot be beaten

Electric Shaver
A young man demonstrates how to us a new fangled shaving machine, more commonly known as an electric razor! Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Remington shavers -- three models posing as a happy family (J Fenton, Sarah Branch and Jane Hancock). 1959

A dangerous Barber with a flippant attitude having won a bet
The Dangers of Betting " Yes Sir; they re very strict ere, Sir. Why, if we scratches a customer we re fined threepence, and if we cuts one we re fined sixpence

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