ELECTRIC IRON, 1930's

Early Electric Iron.

Bruce Hammond Collection

Your comments:

• This is exactly like the iron my mother used in the 1940s. She taught me to iron hankerchieves and tea towels using it but I was always leaving dark iron-shaped marks on them because I didn't put the iron back on the asbestos stand, rather leaving it on the ironed item.
  .......... Mary Fisher, Leeds, Yorkshire, 5th of September 2015
  
  

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