"IWANTU" Comfort Gas Iron Trivet
"IWANTU" Comfort Gas Iron Trivet
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- Description
- Cast trivet for a pointed-toe iron with the model and manufacturer's names cast in around a depiction of the iron at center. Three peg legs; no handle. Closed railing, slightly lower along back. Black.
- Otto Spahr and Charles Stichler of Philadelphia, PA, received U.S. Patent No. 948773 (dated 8 February 1910), Design Patent No. 42443 (dated 30 April 1912) and Patent No. 1050572 (dated 14 January 1913) for their gas iron. Spahr, as Assignor to Strause Gas Iron Co., continued to patent improvements on their invention until the early 1920s.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- trivet, gas iron
- date made
- ca 1910 - 1913
- maker
- Strause Gas Iron Co.
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 in x 6 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 10.16 cm x 16.8275 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0568.2
- accession number
- 1983.0568
- catalog number
- 1983.0568.2
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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