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"Barberito" razor-comb with black sheath

Object/Artifact

A comb-guarded home haircutting razor ("razor comb"): a molded bright-blue plastic head carrying a replaceable stainless-steel blade set between rows of fine guard teeth, on a flat handle pierced with a hang-hole at the end; four round blade-retention posts show along the head. In use, the comb teeth guard the blade so that drawing it through the hair trims or thins it. The accompanying black sheath is a soft, flexible plastic/vinyl slip-cover for the cutting head, hot-stamped in metallic script "Barberito."

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An inexpensive home grooming implement of a type widely used through the mid-to-late 20th century for self-administered haircuts and thinning, an economical alternative to barber visits.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

MINIL

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

Brand: Barberito.

Date: undetermined; tentatively 1960s–1980s on stylistic grounds.

Makers Mark

case

Barberito

Spanish

little barber

Ink

3 cm

15 cm

2-part plastic handle

Case

Instruction manual

Plastic

Molded plastic (blue body); stainless-steel razor blade; soft flexible plastic/vinyl (sheath); metallic stamped lettering.

Good

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

MINIL

producer

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

ownership, acquisition