Thread: What did grampa do ??

I noticed a few of the comments seem to be from people who live in a world called planet America. Think broader than that if you can. As we seem to mostly be thinking WW1 era I'll stick with that for my point.
Not every country was serviced by King Camp Gillette. During WW1 there were also people from Germany, Australia, Britain, Turkey etc. Now Britian and Australia may have had shaving gear supplied by Gillette, but I doubt it. However I don't know for sure. I'm pretty sure the Germans and the Turks weren't supplied with the new fangled DE but I could be wrong there too. My point being not every nation used King Gillette's new invention since it was only in production from 1904 or 6 and WW1 started about 10 years later.
WW2 would have been a different story, the Boer war soldiers would have used straights, in fact prior to the DE I think it was all straights...I need to do more research myself...Makes for a very interesting topic of conversation this one. Thanks for asking the question Nightblade.


Mick

P.S Just had a thought, When did the Roller razor come out? That may have been another razor used in that era.