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.
Chrome-plated electric flatiron, dry, no steam function. Triangular-shaped soleplate, curved, streamlined body, narrow heel rest. Horizontal handle, curved and molded black bakelite with three bent, chrome-plated metal wires. Fabric gauge on back end of handle, red molded plastic knob. Above knob is debossed and colored white: “KM” with lightning bolt. Power cord attaches to back of handle, fabric cord, metal coil, black and gold cord, with black plastic plug, two-pronged. Extended heel rest, stamped/engraved: "115V. A.C. ONLY 1000W./ PATS. PEND. PAT. NOS. 1,481,021/1,951,176/99,170/CAT. NO. 468-7/TEL-A-MATIC/MF’D. BY K-M COMPANY/ST. LOUIS, U.S.A.”. Left side is stamped: “25379”
Patents:
1,481,021, January 15, 1924, Laurence K. Marshall, assignor to Spencer Thermostat Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for “Temperature-controlled apparatus”
1,951,176, March 13, 1934, John E. Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Coating machine and process”
99,170, March 31, 1936, Howard Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Design for a sadiron”
This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Company Collection tag Sample 25379/Rec’d. April 72/Model 468-7; Knapp-Monarch tag, dated 1937.”
Maker is the Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1925 as A.S. Knapp and Company, not as a manufacturer, but to sell products. The company merged with manufacturer Monarch Company of Webster City, Iowa, in 1928. In 1969 the company was acquired by the Hoover Company.
Three-burner, tabletop kerosene or oil stove having one tapered rectangular fount for three oblong rectangular burners, each wick tube containing one long wick, and three inverted tapered chimneys cast as one piece, each with a pivoting rectangular window on front; topped by a fixed rectangular grate. Red and gold product decal "UNION" on one side of fount. Burner plate screws onto fount, while chimneys hook onto back side of burner and are secured by a spring latch or clasp on front. Fount top has a filling spout at one corner and is cast in with foundry name and location on ends.
Maker is the Central Oil & Gas Stove Co. of Gardner, MA; started by William H. Wilder in 1875, but not known when ceased operations (sometime after the early 1920s).
Lamp stoves such as this have been identified for being used to heat irons during the summer months, but were, in reailty, a portable multipurpose appliance used for cooking, heating and lighting in houses, at camps and elsewhere. According to the donor, his mother used this lamp stove in rural Caroline County, VA, during the 1930s to "heat food and bottle for him as a child."
Set of "Asbestos Sad Irons", consisting of three, wood-handled, asbestos-lined hoods (small, medium, large) with flip-over spring clasp or latch for interchangeable use with seven cores (one small, one medium and two large double-pointed, one square-heeled presser, one flounce and one fluter), plus two double-pointed stands, one square mat and yellow wrapping paper for "The DOVER Wax Pad"; all fitted inside a handleless oak case with hinged lid having two hook-and-post fasteners. "ASBESTOS / SAD IRON" cast in tops of all cores. All hoods stamped inside their handles on the face of the heat shield with maker guarantee and patent information.
Complete set; three cores and the two double-pointed stands still in original wrapping paper. Paper lining lid interior with product name missing.
Maker is Dover Manufacturing Company of Canal Dover, OH (not to be confused with Dover Stamping and Manufacturing Co. of Dover, NH, established 1833). Business was started by Charles T. Johnson-Vea and Ole Tverdahl in Stoughton, WI, in 1893 and moved to Ohio in 1900; produced exclusively asbestos sad irons. Tverdahl received U.S. Patent No. 649,968 on May 22, 1900 for the flip-over spring clasp or latch locking mechanism (covered improvements in hood and core).
Manually-operated, tabletop dough mixer, kneader and raiser; makes up to 8 loaves. Consists of a tapered circular container, made in three pieces with two folded, vertical seams and bottom folded up at edge, that has two side handles curved inward above its heavy, rolled rim and a shallow slot attached on bottom underside for a separate clamp that secures device to table or horizontal support; a stamped, Y-shaped crosspiece that snaps over the rim and has a central circular bearing to hold the dough hook and curved crank with black-painted wooden knob; and a cover placed on top of the crosspiece, stamped with instructions in raised sans serif letters. Assembly held together by turn latches. Crosspiece bears product name above two columns of patent dates from 1900 to February 25, 1905, followed by "OTHER PATENTS PENDING" and maker information, all in incuse letters; product information with "AWARDED GOLD MEDAL / ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION" are embossed inside a large circle on container side. Comes with four, slightly different dough fingers or hooks.
Electric flatiron. Metal, triangular-shaped body (A). No fabric guide or temperature control, handle comprised of bent metal, with molded plastic grip, horizontal, black. Two metal prongs at base of handle, above heel, no cord attached. Small, triangular metal plate attached to top of body, silver, embossed/printed: “AMERICAN/BEAUTY/IRON”; heel is stamped/imprinted: “AMERICAN”/BEAUTY NO 6 ½ B/AMERICAN ELECTRIC HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A./PATENTED/MAY 19 1908/MAY 19 1914/FEB, 1 1916/VOLTS 105-114 WATTS 525” and with “LMP” diamond trademark.
Detachable stand comprised of two pieces of sheet metal, triangular shape, stacked one on top of the other, separated by three short metal cylinders, with three metal half-spheres for feet. Stamped into top: “AMERICAN/BEAUTY/IRON” in triangle, “MADE BY/AMERICAN ELECTRIC HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A.”
Patents:
US 887947 A, May 19 1908, Frank Kuhn, Detroit, Michigan, for “Electrically-heated sad-iron”
US 1096929 A, May 19 1914, Frank Kuhn, Detroit, Michigan, for “Electrically-heated sad-iron”
US 1170168 A, February 1, 1916, Frank Kuhn and Frank E. Shailor, assignors for American Electrical Heater Company, Detroit, Michigan, for “Connector for electrically-heated instruments”
Maker is American Electric Heater Company, circa 1890-present. This iron was the first of the "American Beauty" irons the company produced, introduced in 1912.
Electric travel flatiron, dry, no steam function, chrome-plated. Thin, triangular-shaped soleplate, curved sides, thin body. Horizontal handle, wire with shaped wooden grip, stained brown. Handle folds down for travel, hook above heel catches to hold in place during use. Fabric guide and temperature control knob on top of body, black molded plastic knob, fabric guide engraved/stamped into body: "RAY*SILK*WOOL*COTT*LINEN/OFF". Power cord attaches above heel, fabric cord, black, red, and white, with rubber/bakelite plugs, two-pronged. Plug is embossed: "GLADE-CHICAGO/NO 11/PAT'S PEND." Metal panel extended behind heel, stamped/engraved: "DURABILT/PAT. 2,086,240 PAT. 2,045,284/FULLY AUTOMATIC FOLDING IRON/A.C. ONLY 115 VOLT PAT. 2,119,964 CAT. 191 750 WATT/MADE BY THE WINSTED HDW. MFG. CO. WINSTED, CONN. U.S.A.". Hoover collection number is stamped on right side of soleplate: "25041".
Patents:
2,086,240: July 6, 1937, Ludwig Reichold, for "Thermostatic electric heating appliance"
2,045,284: June 23, 1936, E. D. Perry, assignor to the Beardsley & Wolcott Manufacturing Company, for "Electric sadiron"
2,119,964: June 7, 1938, Ludwig Reichold, The Winsted Hardware Manufacturing Company, for " Electric sadiron"
This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. The catalogue card also notes the Hoover Company collection tag read: "Sample No. 25041/Rec'd. 04/18/46/Model 191/HISTORICAL MODEL"
This was the first folding travel iron, introduced in 1937.
Maker is the Winsted Hardware Company, Winsted, Connecticut., later acquired by Waring Products.
Manually-operated, tabletop dough mixer, kneader and raiser; makes up to 4 loaves. Consists of a tapered circular container, made in three pieces with two folded, vertical seams and bottom folded up at edge, that has two side handles curved inward above its heavy, rolled rim and a shallow slot attached on bottom underside for a separate clamp that secures device to table or horizontal support; a stamped, Y-shaped crosspiece that snaps over the rim and has a central circular bearing to hold the dough hook and curved crank with black-painted wooden knob; and a cover placed on top of the crosspiece, stamped with instructions in raised sans serif letters. Assembly held together by turn latches. Crosspiece bears product name above two columns of patent dates from 1900 to 1906 and maker information, all in incuse letters; product information with "AWARDED GOLD MEDAL / ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION" are embossed inside a large circle on container side. No additional dough fingers or hooks.