Wafer Iron
Wafer Iron
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- Description
- Rectangular wafer iron, plier form; one plate is chased with family monograms in a crude checkerboard pattern, the other has a plain grid. Two, long, tapered handles, rectangular in section, the shorter one ending in a closed, teardrop-shape loop and the other in a mushroom terminal. Both handles with square ends forge-welded to plates. No additional marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- iron, wafer
- date made
- 19th century
- 1750-1800
- place made
- Europe
- United States
- Physical Description
- metal, iron (handles material)
- iron, cast (plates material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 3/4 in x 26 7/8 in x 8 in; 4.445 cm x 68.2625 cm x 20.32 cm
- ID Number
- 1982.0090.61
- accession number
- 1982.0090
- catalog number
- 1982.0090.61
- Credit Line
- Estate of John Paul Remensnyder
- subject
- Household Tools and Equipment
- Kitchen utensils
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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