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Ptah

(33,032 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 10:59 AM Oct 2013

Age test {2}, who knows what this is?

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Age test {2}, who knows what this is? (Original Post) Ptah Oct 2013 OP

Looks like an iron. nt pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #1

Coal powered iron. Ptah Oct 2013 #2

I've never seen a coal fired iron before, but my grandmother had a couple of these Arkansas Granny Oct 2013 #3

That must be unique! pengillian101 Oct 2013 #11

Easy. Iron PasadenaTrudy Oct 2013 #4

Flat iron Graybeard Oct 2013 #5

An iron. There's a couple of them at the family farm. Kaleva Oct 2013 #6

Age test? Incitatus Oct 2013 #7

When my father was a child. Ptah Oct 2013 #8

Nice collection of hats in that picture Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #13

1917, north central Montana Ptah Oct 2013 #14

At least I got the time right Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #15

My mother recalled using them when she was a young girl Kaleva Oct 2013 #9

My mom passed away last year she would be 93 now she doc03 Oct 2013 #10

Did they break as easily as today's foreign imports? RedCloud Oct 2013 #12

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

1. Looks like an iron. nt

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:01 AM

Oct 2013

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

2. Coal powered iron.

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 11:08 AM

Oct 2013

Made by my father's grandfather.

Arkansas Granny

(31,518 posts)

3. I've never seen a coal fired iron before, but my grandmother had a couple of these

Reply to Ptah (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 04:31 PM

Oct 2013

that you heated up on a wood stove.

The handle detached so you could iron with one while the other one was heating up and just swap them out when needed.

pengillian101

(2,351 posts)

11. That must be unique!

Reply to Ptah (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 10:25 PM

Oct 2013

Thanks for showing it to us.

PasadenaTrudy

(3,998 posts)

4. Easy. Iron

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 04:33 PM

Oct 2013

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)

5. Flat iron

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 04:58 PM

Oct 2013

It's wedge shape lent it's name to the famous

Flatiron Building in NYC>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_building
.
.

Kaleva

(36,312 posts)

6. An iron. There's a couple of them at the family farm.

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 05:53 PM

Oct 2013

Incitatus

(5,317 posts)

7. Age test?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:50 PM

Oct 2013

When is the last time those were practically used?

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

8. When my father was a child.

Reply to Incitatus (Reply #7)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:56 PM

Oct 2013

Back in the day.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

13. Nice collection of hats in that picture

Reply to Ptah (Reply #8)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 02:06 AM

Oct 2013

I would say that dates from the late 1910s, maybe central or eastern Europe?

Ptah

(33,032 posts)

14. 1917, north central Montana

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 03:36 AM

Oct 2013

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

15. At least I got the time right

Reply to Ptah (Reply #14)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 03:44 AM

Oct 2013

Were they, perhaps, European immigrants?

Kaleva

(36,312 posts)

9. My mother recalled using them when she was a young girl

Reply to Incitatus (Reply #7)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:56 PM

Oct 2013

She'd be 72 now if she were still alive.

doc03

(35,348 posts)

10. My mom passed away last year she would be 93 now she

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2013, 09:35 PM

Oct 2013

had to quit school in the 6th grade to go to work. She did house work and washed clothes in the creek on a washboard and ironed them with one of those irons.

RedCloud

(9,230 posts)

12. Did they break as easily as today's foreign imports?

Reply to Ptah (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 03:05 PM

Oct 2013

I asked, hoping to awaken consumers to the fraud they face everyday.

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