Dutch
Bonnet Roller Iron
These interesting ironing
devices pre-date most fluters, and were for putting the cute and fine design
into the edge of the little bonnets those cute blonde girls from Holland use
to wear.
Good ........ $95.00 MN-DBR
The
First Iron???
I present this piece identified as
"the first known iron", as found with the documentation that came with it.
I have nothing to add and have no feeling one way or the other as to the veracity
or truth of it other than it is old! And I haven't tried it out to see
how well it would work! Edna and Whitey Glissman were believers, as they
have an illustration of a lady demonstrating the use of a similar one for ironing
in their book on irons. Maybe they had duel uses, I remember seeing such
things being used for clubbing the enemy or dog chews.
Good + ........ $29.50 SOLD!
PR-1344
Slikenstones
Devices for ironing clothing have been known
since the earliest of times, and some have forms and are of materials that boggle
the mind, and stretch the imagination. Elsewhere on our site we have a jaw bone from a reindeer or cow or Mastodon that is purported to be one of the earliest of all ironing devices. I still am not sure of that, even though it is documented and described in various ironing references.
Mushroom shaped pieces of glass also fall into that "stretching the imagination" category. These unusual glass mushrooms and rounded forms are are a well documented and authentic ironing tool from the 16th / 17th century and before from the upper Scandinavian reaches of the far north.
I am not sure where they were getting the glass from---I guess since it is nothing more than melted sand the real questions would be how did they come up with furnaces that heated to 2000 degrees and who was tending to them, and which Vikings were ironing their uniforms before heading off on one of their conquests? Just trying to add some perspective. And a little humor.
If you want to read the how and where, the info is in all the references on early ironing like Glissman's or Berney's books on the history of ironing and irons.
Left .... Good ........ $395.00
Right .... Good ........ $295.00 SOLD!
Front ..... Good ....... 125.00
PR-302
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