Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers

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I came across this collection of vintage razor blades in wrappers. They are mostly Swedish and I would guess they are mainly from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

The hobby of collecting these I know nothing about, however I can imagine it was pretty popular once upon a time. Being an affordable household item with varying and often elaborate design it must have been much like collecting matchboxes/books, bottle caps or cheap stamps.

If anyone has information on the subject or can point to a place of information, let us know.

Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers



And it burns, burns, burns

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Dick Sprang, 1944 (altered)

Maimed and Framed

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Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Poster illustration by Richard Vance Corben (Neal Adams)

Golden Age

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Martijn van der Klasch 

"Ursula van de Klomp, musician" 

 AI/Collage/Photoshop


 

Draken

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Creator: Flygvapenmuseum / Matilda Ahl 
| Credit: Stina Hedvall
Copyright: Creative Commons CC-by Flygvapenmuseum
Some retouching has been done to the original.

Catch-22

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Book cover by Per Åhlin. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961), Swedish 1966 edition Moment 22.

Smart-Aleck Kill

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Book cover by Per Åhlin. Smart-Aleck Kill by Raymond Chandler (1958), Swedish 1966 edition Bittra mandlar (Bitter Almonds).


Dust Jacket Cover Art and More

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Ivan Chekhov - Flickr

"Collection of U.S. dust jacket cover art starting from the 1920's and paperback & digest cover art from the U.S., UK, Canada and Australia starting from the end of the 1930's - organized in chronological Albums per publisher / series"

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