Title
Electric hair clipper from Wahl Corporation
Year/Period
Mid-1980s
Region
USA, Singapore
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2023-01323
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the Yue-Wong Family
This electric hair clipper from Wahl Corporation was one of the tools used by Mdm W.Y. Low, who worked as a hairdressing apprentice then hairdresser in Singapore from around 1946 to the early 1980s. Wahl Corporation is a United States-based company, with its headquarters in Sterling, Illinois. The founder, Leo Wahl, is known for inventing the first electro-magnetic hair clipper in 1919. For more than a century, the company has remained at the forefront of the barber and salon trade through its manufacturing of grooming products.
