Dear
all
I have to
catalogue a 1920s travel iron set but I'm afraid I don't quite know how the
pieces fit together - any help would be appreciated.
The set consists of
a leather-covered carry case with velvet compartmentalized inner, a
hair curling tong with a wooden handle, a flat iron made of a shiny metal
with a wicker handle and a small round kettle with collapsible wicker
handles.
It has an electrical cord
with two female sockets at the one end and a fitting similar to a bayonet light
bulb's on the other end. Only the iron has
fixed plug pins that connects to the cord.
There is a
semi-holed cordless porcelain screw-bulb fitting with detachable pins
and there
are two loose plates, which I assume serve as hotplates. The one
plate has a raised / lowered centre bar and fits the iron's
flat surface, the other is a flat round plate with basically the same
diameter as the kettle and has two cut out, raised / lowered? horizontal
parts.
The
only maker's mark I could find is a back-to-front "B" with
an adjoining 'E" engraved at the back of the iron
plate.
I will e-mail
photo's on request
Where can I find
more information about this?
Do you have a
similar set in your collection?
Am I missing any
parts?
How do the
kettle and tongs warm up?
Looking forward to your response
Elize
Elize Sutherland
NATIONAL CULTURAL HISTORY
MUSEUM
Tel. +27(0) 12 324 6082 Fax.
+27(0) 12 328 5173
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Bosman & Schubart Street), Pretoria
PO Box 28088, Sunnyside, 0132
RSA
Any opinions expressed
are strictly my own