Vintage Razor Blades and Wrappers

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

Dick Sprang, 1944 (altered)

Maimed and Framed


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

Golden Age


Martijn van der Klasch 

"Ursula van de Klomp, musician" 

 AI/Collage/Photoshop


 

Draken


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

Catch-22


 



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

Smart-Aleck Kill


 

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

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"

Found through This isn't happiness