Wafer Iron
date: label: date made
content: 1790-1815
notes: label: Description
content: Circular wafer iron, plier form; both plates feature an incuse, spreadwing, shield-body eagle, positioned right-side up on one plate and upside-down on the other. Two, long, tapered handles, rectangular in section, one with a ball-and-acorn terminal. Both handles have arrow-shaped pads double-riveted to plates. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place made
content: United States
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 Stephen L. Garber
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.320815.0001
label: catalog number
content: 320815.0001
label: accession number
content: 320815
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: 2 in x 5 1/2 in x 28 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 13.97 cm x 71.755 cm