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JB,

If your great grand father was living in a major US city, he would have been able to find many inexpensive German razors being sold in shops or by door to door peddlers- many of them recent...

From a WWI era cartoon...

Officer: Why didn't you shave, soldier?
Soldier: I did, sir.
Officer: With what? Your pocket knife?
Soldier: No sir, I lost my pocket knife so I had to use my army...

Nightblade,

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...