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Product ProfileGillette Contour Plus
Identification notes for a Gillette Contour Plus card that doesn't print the Lubrastrip® name anywhere on it — card livery, barcode and batch codes, distributor markets, and a barcode match against the Contour Plus Lubrastrip entry that raises an open question about how these two hub entries should relate.
Seven-point verification standard
- 1. Identification — card layout, barcode, batch code logged
- 2. Manufacturing — pending: cross-reference batch code to a date range
- 3. Packaging — one card front and back photographed
- 4. Compatibility — pending: confirm against a physical Contour/Atra handle
- 5. Rarity — pending: no comparison sample size yet
- 6. Collectability — pending
- 7. References — primary photography only; secondary sources not yet added
What this sample is
This card reads "Gillette Contour Plus" and shows the pivoting cartridge with a large orange downward arrow into the blades — the same visual language used for lubricating-strip call-outs elsewhere in the range — plus a corner icon of curved arrows showing the pivot motion. What it doesn't have anywhere on the card is the word "Lubrastrip," which appears on every sample in the separate Contour Plus Lubrastrip entry already on file.
That distinction is exactly what led to this being catalogued as a separate product profile rather than folded into the existing entry — but as the callout under Identification below shows, the barcode tells a more complicated story.
Card front
Grey grid-pattern ground in an orange border frame — the same visual family as the GII Plus card already on file, just in orange/grey rather than purple/mustard. "Gillette" and "Contour" are set in white, with a large diagonal orange "Plus." The main graphic shows the cartridge with an orange arrow pointing down into the blades, and a smaller corner icon (top right) of three curved orange arrows over the cartridge, indicating the pivoting action. The pack holds 5 cartridges.
Card back
The back follows the same four-step pictogram as the rest of the Contour family (consistent with the pivoting head), a "Made by" block with Finnish/Swedish and Greek translations, a four-column distributor list, a Gillette Series cross-sell graphic, a barcode, and a batch code.
Sample on hand
- Cartridge count
- 5
- Livery
- Grey grid ground, orange border frame
- Main graphic
- Orange downward arrow into the blades; no strip brand name printed
- Corner icon
- Three curved orange arrows over the cartridge, indicating pivot motion
- Corner code
- 9866 / 1-10-4-2 / 29
- Barcode
- 3 014260 207601
- Batch / print code
- 170008380 C
- Language set
- Finnish/Swedish and Greek translations on the "Made by" block
- Distributor markets
- Annecy, Berlin, Brussels, Espoo-Esbo, København Ø, Lisboa, London TW7 5NP, Madrid, Milano, Oslo, Rijswijk ZH, Stockholm, Wien, Zürich, Dublin (Daelgate Ltd.) — plus Metamorfosi (Greece)
Barcode matches a Contour Plus Lubrastrip sample exactly. 3 014260 207601 is the same barcode already logged for "Back 4" in the Contour Plus Lubrastrip entry — a card that does print the Lubrastrip name. Following the pattern established across this archive (barcode identifies product and pack size; corner/print codes identify the specific run), an identical barcode on two cards that differ in Lubrastrip branding suggests these may be the same underlying product at different points in its packaging history, rather than two genuinely separate lines. This is left as an open question rather than resolved here — worth deciding whether the hub should keep Contour Plus and Contour Plus Lubrastrip as separate profiles or merge them, once more samples of each are on hand.
Cross-sell lineup (Cool Wave After Shave, Gel, Shaving Foam, Shave Gel Concentrate, After Shave Gel) and the Finnish/Swedish/Greek translation set both match Contour's "Back 1" and GII Plus, continuing the pattern of several different cartridge lines sharing a print period.
What this cartridge fits
The card doesn't state compatibility beyond the Contour Plus name itself. Given the shared pivoting head and four-step pictogram, it should share compatibility with Contour and Atra handles — not yet confirmed here against a physical handle, and flagged as pending under Compatibility in the checklist above.
Sources
- Primary: one Gillette Contour Plus five-cartridge card, photographed front and back and transcribed directly for this entry, August 2026.
- Cross-referenced against the Gillette Contour, Gillette Contour Plus Lubrastrip, and Gillette GII Plus entries already on file for this hub.
- Secondary sources — manufacturer archives, collector forums, dated retail listings — have not yet been added; see the verification checklist above.