In working on one of the old buildings here on the farm,
We found an old steam iron. It must have been put out there to prop up a door or even to store, but over time it fell into the dirt and was buried.
How cool this is. And what an amazing thing to iron with!
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
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How exciting to find such an antique. My last husband had a whole collection of old irons. They are quite heavy.
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It’s extremely heavy! I would not have liked to iron with it.
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Is amazing what you’ll find ~
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On old farmsteads! 🙂
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What an interesting find! It is truly a piece of Americana. My grandother had a flat iron that she heated on their wood-burning stove, but I had never seen a steam iron before.
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Connie says it’s a gas powdered iron…either way it’s cool!
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Cool! I love finding stuff 😀
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Me too!
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I’ve heard of ironing. Didn’t people used to do that to clothes for some reason?
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I’m one of those who still does…:)
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Can you imagine ironing with it? It looks like an old gas iron:)
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Is that what it was? It looks like it would have been heavy and awkward
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That is what I was thinking. That is just too much work. Not only did someone need to operate such contraptions, but it was more necessary because the fabrics that do not get ironed had not been popularized yet, and people were not so tolerant of wrinkles.
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Very true
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Iron? Can you imagine ironing one day a week? Monday was for washing, Tuesday for ironing. No wonder women those days had lots of muscles; that iron looks heavy.
BTW, the Sandhills came back yesterday to 2 feet of snow here. Poor things.
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They are leaving us in droves! Although they are stopping by here on their way home to you.
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I’m going to mention you in my post today. I hope you don’t mind
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Not at all
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You’r up!
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