Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: 1750 - 1800
label: date made
content: 1750 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Box iron with lift-up gate drawn by a cylindrical rod with ball knob that slides through a band on the rear handle support. Handle has an incurved cylindrical wood grip and curved-end supports held in place by square thumbscrews. Four-piece brazed body has a six-spiral grill on sole interior and is supported by three internal rivets, one at each corner. No marks. Used with heater or slug, 1979.0862.06.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0862.05
label: accession number
content: 1979.0862
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0862.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (body, gate material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (handle, rod, grill material)
label: Physical Description
content: walnut (grip material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 14.605 cm x 14.605 cm x 10.4775 cm