Thank you very much! Yes, it`s something appealing with that three tone dial. Very «geometrically correct«
Ran across this deco circa 1933 Schick Type C1 "injector" travel razor the other day at a flea market and couldn't pass it up...just a really beautiful, well made, and neat little design. Removing the end cap from the case reveals the shaving head which is on a pivot -- it is swung ninety degrees into the shaving position. At the other end of the handle are two "pulls" -- one marked "blade" and the other unmarked. Pulling on the unmarked "pull" ejects a "magazine" marked "REAR" on the its outward facing surface. The user fills the "magazine" with blades, pushes the "magazine" back into the handle and closes the "pull". The "magazine" stores blades in the handle. The second "pull" is marked "blade". It is actually one end of the "injector", which acts like the bolt on a "bolt action" rifle. When the shaving head is in the storage position -- i.e., in-line with the handle -- the user slides the "pull" out of the handle then pushes it back into the handle. This pushes a blade from the storage magazine out through a slot at the other end of the handle and into the shaving head -- in the process, ejecting the blade that might be in the shaving head. The user then rotates the shaving head ninety degrees, and the razor is ready to use. I also picked up a little Benrus watch from the same vendor, $13 for the pair....a nice way to start the day.
Neato! An early Schick Injector travel razor. Never before saw one of those. https://coinsandmoreonline.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=175 Another really great OmegaForums thread this one is.
A little more restrained than your regular Art Deco offering. This Susie Cooper vase, circa 1932, arrived today. Interesting that it has the incised bands that featured so heavily on Keith Murray’s designs and was produced about the same time - and I’ve not seen another Susie Cooper piece like it. (So I wonder who saw who’s first?)
An art deco bracelet, with thanks to our pal @Tire-comedon who let me have it. He believes it was made in the 1950s even though the design is pure art deco. A bit too ornate for a man these days perhaps? Thankfully I don’t have that problem.
Went to celebrate the 90th Birthday of a lovely French lady who came to Australia, via Egypt, many years ago and who would have been in her prime during the Art Deco years. It was a Sunday afternoon "High Tea", and as we sat down, I noticed the Art Deco styling of the sandwich trays. A bit later I happened to look outside to see how the weather was shaping up, and noticed one of my most loved AD structures in Melbourne, the beautiful Manchester Unity Building. Unfortunately the light was from the wrong direction so this snapshot does it no justice, and I wish the owners of those awful A/C "warts" would remove them from the facade. More on our AD buildings here. To conclude proceedings, we toasted the Lady of the day with Champagne, but unfortunately not the same as the vintages they had in the racks behind us (the LOCKED racks! ).
