Pictured here is a circa 1937 Stropone razor sharpener. The company’s name, Stropone Inc., is a play on the word strop, or stropper, which was a strip of leather used for sharpening straight razors.

This video showcases a rare razor blade sharpener made around 1945 by the French company 'Radium.' Constructed from steel, the sharpening mechanism required WD40 and heat to loosen seized gears and ...

For hundreds of years, a trained barber used an extremely sharp blade known as a straight razor to accomplish a close shave. When the first self-contained “safety razors” became widely available, many ...