"IWANTU" Comfort Gas Iron Base
date: label: date made
content: 1913
name: label: maker
content: Strause Gas Iron Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Triangular or single-point gas iron base fitted with a fuel pipe running inside the length of the body, its nozzle end fixed at an angle at back. Four ventilation holes along bottom of both sides. Base fits inside cover 2005.0272.01 and secures to it by the small hole inside the toe, which corresponds to a rounded projection on the cover, and by the twist-lock handle at back which slips into a narrow slot in the cover. Flat and smooth underside. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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 Baltimore Gas and Electric Home Products & Services, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0272.02
label: accession number
content: 2005.0272
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0272.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: base, gas iron
label: Object Name
content: gas iron, part of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plate, nickel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 5/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 14.2875 cm x 21.2725 cm x 9.2075 cm