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- OBJECT TYPE
- Electric/Travel
- DATE
- 1911
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1992.0327.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Brock-Snyder Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- Chorus girl
- LOCATION
- Grimsby, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Nickel-plated pressed steel housing. Nickel-plated cast iron sole plate. Metal handle with wooden hand grip and composition board thumb rest.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.8 cm
- Width
- 8.3 cm
- Height
- 11.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Laundry
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Brock Snyder
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Grimsby
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Part of the Ontario Hydro collection donated to the Museum in 1992. - Function
-
Used to press flat and/or remove wrinkles from fabrics. - Technical
-
Example of a travel iron. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr's plate on front handle reads: 'H.E.P.C./ NO. 348/ V. 110 A. 2 1/[2]/ CHORUS/ GIRL/ THE BROCK SYNDER/ MFG. CO./ GRIMSBY, ONT.'
- Missing
- Stand? From CA of 04/14/1994 by Tony Missio: No - Complete
- Finish
- Polished nickel finish on house, sole plate and handle. Wooden hand grip painted teal blue. Composition board thumb rest painted black. Blue mfr's plate with gold print.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Brock-Snyder Mfg. Co., Iron, circa 1911, Artifact no. 1992.0327, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1992.0327.001/
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