Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1884
notes: label: Description
content: Fixed handle, pointed-toe iron with maker, place manufactured and size "7" cast in top of body. Vertically-seamed, hexagonal cylindrical handle has a baluster block grip and S-curve or gooseneck sides with posts or rods individually attached into raised holes or sockets; black finish.
label: Description
content: Attributed to Reading Foundry of Reading, PA. The Reading Foundry Co. (Ltd.) was established in 1884 as an outgrowth of Mellert Foundry and Machine Co. Both companies specialized in cast iron water pipes, waterworks equipment, architectural elements and gearings; it is not known how many sad irons they produced or for how long (examples of this handle design date back to the late 1850s).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Reading
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Astor Godlove
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.287906.0005
label: catalog number
content: 287906.0005
label: accession number
content: 287906
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 6 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in; 12.7 cm x 16.51 cm x 9.8425 cm