Fluting Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Two-piece hand fluter consisting of a wire handled, convex rocker or presser with arrow design cast in the top side of its corrugated plate, and a matching, flat, rectangular, corrugated bed with product name, patent information and maker cast in its underside; a hooked tab for lifting is at one end of rocker and slotted tab at one end of bed. Rocker handle has a horizontally seamed, crosshatched block grip and S-curve or gooseneck sides individually attached to bases or sockets in the plate. Both pieces marked "4" in yellow and white chalk or crayon.
label: Description
content: Maker is C. W. Whitfield of Watkins (now Watkins Glen), NY.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Watkins Glen
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.307541.0005
label: catalog number
content: 307541.0005
label: accession number
content: 307541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (rocker plate, bed, grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 15.5575 cm x 8.255 cm