"Matador" Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Denatured alcohol-powered, pointed-toe iron with removable heater at heel consisting of a globular fount or reservoir, valve stem to regulate heat and burner pipe. Hollow body has two rows of ventilation holes along both sides and a solid wood handle affixed to an oval heat guard marked "Matador" on an X-shaped base screwed on top. No companion trivet.
label: Description
content: Josef (Joseph) Feldmeyer of Wurzburg, Germany first patented his alcohol-burning sad iron in Europe (Austria, Hungary, Belgium and Germany) in 1895; he received U.S. Patents No. 581,241 on April 17, 1897, No. 644,132 on February 27, 1900 and No. 768,834 on June 28, 1904. Maker not known; possibly George L. Marion Mfg. Co. of New York, NY, a foundry known to have made patented Feldmeyer irons.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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 Mrs. Alexius McGlannan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.380289
label: catalog number
content: 380289
label: accession number
content: 152563
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nickel plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (reservoir, burner material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: asbestos (pads under handle base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 15.5575 cm x 20.955 cm x 7.3025 cm