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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