Snap Stand Speed Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
notes: label: Description
content: Electric flatiron. Metal, triangular-shaped body, chrome-plated. Fabric guide on top of body, “OFF/ART-SILK/SILK/WOOL/COTTON/LINEN” embossed into top, streamlines, circular design. Molded plastic pointer/selector, pointed, black, “PROCTOR” logo embossed into top. Handle comprised of bent metal, with molded cork grip, horizontal, black, molded plastic ends. Power attachment built into bottom of handle, power cord attached. Coiled metal wire, woven fabric cord, black, molded plastic plug, black, two-pronged, interior circuitry is visible. Cooling stand comprised of two bent metal wires, attached at heel rest, which rotate from top of body around to the underside of soleplate. Heel is marked: “PROCTOR/SNAP STAND SPEED IRON/NO 930 AUTOMATIC/USE ON ALTERNATING CURRENT ONLY/1000 WATTS VOLTS 110-120/MADE BY PROCTOR & SHWARTZ ELECTRIC CO./PHILADELPHIA, PA., U.S.A./PATENTS PENDING”. Red paper tag attached to power cord, printed, illegible.
label: Description
content: Maker is Proctor & Shwartz Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1885 as the Philadelphia Textile and Machinery Company, now a part of Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex, Inc.
label: Description
content: An ad from 1935 featuring this iron stated that the dealer would buy your old iron from you for $1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3012.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3012.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in; 13.0175 cm x 19.05 cm x 17.145 cm