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Department:
Our Chosen Land
Replica or Original:
Not a Replica
On Display, In Storage, or in a Private Offsite Collection:
On Display
Primary Material:
Metal
Medium:
Clothes Irons
Dimensions:
Classification/Category:
Personal Objects
Specific Classification:
Clothes Iron
Notable Signatures,
Inscriptions, and/or Markings:
Donated by:
Unknown
Accession Number
1993.035.001
Artifact Date:
1912-Present
Unknown
Artifact Era/Dynasty:
Unknown
Creator:
Chinese
Creator Ancestry:
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According to a source online, hot metal irons were used first by the Chinese thousands of years ago. In the early twentieth century, Irons were vital to the production of a laundry business. In order to work efficiently, these irons were heated up on the stove alternately in order to facilitate non-stop ironing.
Artifact Date:
1912-Present
Artifact Era/Dynasty:
Unknown
Creator:
Unknown
Creator Ancestory:
Chinese
Catalogue Entry
Online References:
"History of Ironing": http://www.oldandinteresting.com/antique-irons-smoothers-mangles.aspx
Department:
Our Chosen Land
On Display, In Storage, or in a Private Offsite Collection:
On Display
Replica or Original:
Not a Replica
Clothes irons for smoothing out wrinkles on clothes.
用於撫平衣服上的皺紋的熨斗。
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Classification/Category:
Personal Objects
Specific Classification:
Clothes Iron
Notable Signatures,
Inscriptions, and/or Markings:
Primary Material:
Metal
Medium:
Clothes Irons
Dimensions:
Donated by:
Unknown
Accession Number:
1993.035.001
Irons 熨斗
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