Flatiron
date: label: date made
content: 1850 - 1870
label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Pointed-toe, combination smoothing and fluting charcoal iron consisting of a removable cover with tall, forward-curved chimney at tip and a hollow body with detachable corrugated brass fluting plate on one side; U-shape vented tube on bottom inside connects to two openings in heel with rotating damper having two funnels and two solid discs. Wood handle and tinned concave heat shield. Cover secures to body by notches at front and a pin at heel that runs through rear handle support and corresponding lug or tab on body. Damper discs cast in "PAT" and "APL'D / FOR". Old, red-bordered, white paper collection label on heel.
label: Description
content: Maker not known. Patent possibly refers only to the rotating damper, which appears in Horace S. Pease combination charcoal iron, U.S. Patent No. 387,905 dated August 14, 1888; Pease's iron, however, features a removable handle with fluter rocker and fluter plate that clips to side. This example probably was sold with a separate fluter rocker.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar J. Rollins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383365
label: catalog number
content: 383365
label: accession number
content: 167255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, tinned sheet (heat shield material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (fluting plate material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 20.955 cm x 22.225 cm x 11.1125 cm