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MAKER: "Regina," a Czechoslovak razor-blade brand. The specific manufacturing enterprise is not confirmed from available sources. During the socialist period Czechoslovak double-edge blade production was centered on the state enterprise later known as Astra Diu, whose factory at Jevíčko operated as a state corporation from 1950 to 1993 before passing to Astra Diu s.r.o., then Gillette Czech, then Czech Blades s.r.o.; surviving Astra-line packs from that era named only "Czechoslovakia" with no town, which matches this packet. Whether Regina was a product of that enterprise or another Czechoslovak maker is not established. DATE / PERIOD: Not dated on the packet. The "MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA" marking places it before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992. The mid-century graphic style (the crown-and-shield device, slab lettering, and color blocking) points to roughly the 1950s–1970s.

Front: "REGINA"; "GREEN"; white end striping. Side: "5 BLADES". Reverse: "REGINA"; "MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA"; white end striping. Languages: English only on the visible faces ("REGINA," "GREEN," "BLADES," "MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA"); no Czech or Slovak text is visible, consistent with export packaging. The brand name "Regina" is Latin for "queen," reinforced by the crown emblem.

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This is a Czechoslovak export-market razor-blade packet. The all-English wording, including the country line, is typical of Eastern Bloc consumer goods packaged for export rather than for the domestic market, paralleling the English-language Soviet and East German items examined earlier. "Green" denotes a specific line within the Regina range (such brands commonly issued several grades under one name), and the crown-and-shield device plays on the "queen" sense of the brand name.

The dominant Czechoslovak double-edge blade producer in the socialist era was the state enterprise at Jevíčko in Moravia, the lineage that ran from the 1950–1993 state corporation through Astra Diu and Gillette Czech to today's Czech Blades s.r.o. at Brněnská 559, Jevíčko, a firm whose portfolio includes long-running brands such as Tiger and Tatra. Regina is not named among those brands in the sources located, so it cannot be assigned to the Jevíčko enterprise with confidence; it may have originated there or with another Czechoslovak producer. Period Czechoslovak packs generally omitted the town, as this one does, which limits what the object alone can establish. A Slovak cutlery and blade maker (Sandrik) is a further candidate worth checking.