Fluting Iron
Fluting Iron
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- Description
- Two-piece hand fluter consisting of a wire handled, convex rocker or presser with arrow design cast in the top side of its corrugated plate, and a matching, flat, rectangular, corrugated bed with product name, patent information and maker cast in its underside; a hooked tab for lifting is at one end of rocker and slotted tab at one end of bed. Rocker handle has a horizontally seamed, crosshatched block grip and S-curve or gooseneck sides individually attached to bases or sockets in the plate. Both pieces marked "4" in yellow and white chalk or crayon.
- Maker is C. W. Whitfield of Watkins (now Watkins Glen), NY.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- iron, fluting
- date made
- ca 1875
- place made
- United States: New York, Watkins Glen
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (rocker plate, bed, grip material)
- iron wire (handle material)
- enamel (finish material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 15.5575 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- DL.307541.0005
- catalog number
- 307541.0005
- accession number
- 307541
- Credit Line
- Gift of W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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