iron, wafer
date: label: date made
content: 1725-1750
notes: label: Description
content: Circular wafer iron, plier form; both plates feature an incuse musical trophy design composed of a lyre at center on an open music book, surrounded by pairs of tympani and cymbals, five trumpets, and two flags, all inside a laurel wreath border. Two, long, tapered handles have rectangular shafts, cylindrical grips, and ball-and-acorn terminals; the tip of one is hammered into a hook holding a shaped locking ring that fits over the other handle to secure closed. Both handles have small arrow-shaped pads double-riveted to plates. No marks.
label: Description
content: According to the accession file, the donor was apparently related to early Dutch settlers in New York and this wafer iron and waffle iron, DL*59.2205-.2206 are catalogued as having been "brought from Holland by early New York Dutch." The catalog card dates this wafer iron to "second quarter 18th century". Date seems early; further research needed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: Holland
label: place used
content: United States: New York
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of M. Josephine Page
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2205
label: catalog number
content: 59.2205
label: accession number
content: 205078
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 in x 5 1/2 in x 25 5/8 in; 7.62 cm x 13.97 cm x 65.0875 cm