"Asbestos Family Cabinet"
date: label: date made
content: 1900 - 1925
notes: label: Description
content: Set of "Asbestos Sad Irons", consisting of three, wood-handled, asbestos-lined hoods (small, medium, large) with flip-over spring clasp or latch for interchangeable use with seven cores (one small, one medium and two large double-pointed, one square-heeled presser, one flounce and one fluter), plus two double-pointed stands, one square mat and yellow wrapping paper for "The DOVER Wax Pad"; all fitted inside a handleless oak case with hinged lid having two hook-and-post fasteners. "ASBESTOS / SAD IRON" cast in tops of all cores. All hoods stamped inside their handles on the face of the heat shield with maker guarantee and patent information.
label: Description
content: Complete set; three cores and the two double-pointed stands still in original wrapping paper. Paper lining lid interior with product name missing.
label: Description
content: Maker is Dover Manufacturing Company of Canal Dover, OH (not to be confused with Dover Stamping and Manufacturing Co. of Dover, NH, established 1833). Business was started by Charles T. Johnson-Vea and Ole Tverdahl in Stoughton, WI, in 1893 and moved to Ohio in 1900; produced exclusively asbestos sad irons. Tverdahl received U.S. Patent No. 649,968 on May 22, 1900 for the flip-over spring clasp or latch locking mechanism (covered improvements in hood and core).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dover
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Rittenhouse
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.302439.0001
label: catalog number
content: 302439.0001
label: accession number
content: 302439
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sad irons, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (hoods, cores, heat shields material)
label: Physical Description
content: asbestos (hood linings material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle grips material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (handle grips material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (wrapping material material)
label: Physical Description
content: oak (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (hardware material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-in case: 4 5/8 in x 17 3/8 in x 12 3/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 44.1325 cm x 31.4325 cm