Wafer Iron
date: label: date made
content: 1780-1830
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular wafer iron, plier form; each plate features a different chased design of a basket of flowers inside a dotted border. Two, long, tapered handles, rectangular in section, the shorter one ending in a rattail loop with shaped locking ring that fits over the mushroom terminal on the other to secure closed. Both handles with arrow-shaped pads riveted to plates. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.388213
label: catalog number
content: 388213
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, wafer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (plates material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 27 in x 6 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 68.58 cm x 17.145 cm