Thread: What did grampa do ??

Originally Posted by DHMStr8

"This doesn’t answer your question but as far as WWI goes, this was the time when the Gillette was taking off. Many doughboys would have been issued safety razors because they were more compact and easier to maintain in the field."

That brught back a memory! My grandfather fought in WWI, and many, many years ago my grandmother showed me the shave kit he "brought back from the war". As I remember, it was a little olive-drab pouch that contained a Gillette comb-edge DE plus a pack of blades in the original paper wrap. The razor head unsrewed from the handle so that everything fit just right in the pouch; in other words the pouch was obviously made to fit the razor. The pouch was stamped "US", so I assume the Army issued it to him.

(I'm not that familiar with DEs so you experts may know better than I do what I'm describing.)

Of course at the time I was a teenaged punk and had no interest in that sort of thing, and it's long gone now!

The picture below is from WW2 but it's exactly what you describe-this is from my modest collection of historic razors. I have shaved with it a couple times, and it's a fine shaver.