Title
Oster ‘Model B’ manual hair clipper with box
Year/Period
Mid-20th century
Region
USA, Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2023-01322
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the Yue-Wong Family
This hair clipper was one of the tools used by Mdm W.Y. Low, who was a hairdressing apprentice then hairdresser in Singapore from around 1946 to the 1980s. The manual clipper was produced by John Oster Manufacturing Co. which was established in 1924 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Manual hair clippers are hand-held tools, which are operated by alternately squeezing and releasing a pair of sprung handles. Barbers and hairdressers could cut their customers' hair close to the skin and relatively quickly with such clippers.
