Wafer Iron
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
label: date made
content: 1750-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular wafer iron, plier form; one plate is chased with family monograms in a crude checkerboard pattern, the other has a plain grid. Two, long, tapered handles, rectangular in section, the shorter one ending in a closed, teardrop-shape loop and the other in a mushroom terminal. Both handles with square ends forge-welded to plates. No additional marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0090.61
label: accession number
content: 1982.0090
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0090.61
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, wafer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (plates material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 26 7/8 in x 8 in; 4.445 cm x 68.2625 cm x 20.32 cm