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French Patent 1819 for Razor with interchangeable blade.
Mr Charles coutelier (cutler) from St-Sauveur in Paris, in the year of 1819, received a patent for a razor with interchangeable blade. Camille Page in his books on cutlery refers to this type of razor as being from the beginning of the 19th century. At the Exposition in
1823, Mr Charles presented his razors with intechangeable blades to the public.
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Rameau a Sens another cutlery claimed to be the inventor of the frameback razor? Jacques Lecoultre from Switzerland and his famous frameback, both makers were well after Mr Charles. Is it possible that he was the inventor of the frameback as we know it today?
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Re: French Patent 1819 for Razor with interchangeable blade.
Martin, you are incredible man. I like love your ability to dig stuff up.
French Patent 1819 for Razor with interchangeable blade.
The French alway believe that they've come up with inventions 1st. Who knows when someone snuck that into their Patent files? It's the same as that Cave Art thing they try to pass off as prehistoric.☺
Everyone one knows it was the Americans and British came with with shaving 1st. Just look at the French paintings from that time period. None of them shaved.
French Patent 1819 for Razor with interchangeable blade.
I believe it was Britain and the skis! It was one of the things that the Vikings took back with them! Read it somewhere...