"IWANTU" Comfort Gas Iron Trivet
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910 - 1913
name: label: maker
content: Strause Gas Iron Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Cast trivet for a pointed-toe iron with the model and manufacturer's names cast in around a depiction of the iron at center. Three peg legs; no handle. Closed railing, slightly lower along back. Black.
label: Description
content: Otto Spahr and Charles Stichler of Philadelphia, PA, received U.S. Patent No. 948773 (dated 8 February 1910), Design Patent No. 42443 (dated 30 April 1912) and Patent No. 1050572 (dated 14 January 1913) for their gas iron. Spahr, as Assignor to Strause Gas Iron Co., continued to patent improvements on their invention until the early 1920s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0568.2
label: accession number
content: 1983.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0568.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: trivet, gas iron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 in x 6 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 10.16 cm x 16.8275 cm