Fluting Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: North Brothers Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Roller fluter consisting of a corrugated roller with rounded, downturned, slotted handle and a hinged, matching corrugated bed on rectangular base or stand with four splayed bracket feet that holds round-corner rectangular slug or heater three square slots for lifting. Stand has maker and place made cast in its underside; no marks on roller. Rocker handle and base enameled black with gilt striping and accents. All parts marked "12" (in yellow chalk or crayon) and "GATCH" (in white chalk or crayon).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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.307541.0008
label: catalog number
content: 307541.0008
label: accession number
content: 307541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (roller, bed material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (roller handle, base, heaters material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish on roller handle and base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-iron: 1 3/8 in x 5 5/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 14.2875 cm x 8.89 cm