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Ironing women

     

 

The laundresses and the washerwomen

   
   

 

The washboats

     

 

The tailors

     

 

Irons from a collection


Box iron, stirrup type / spring lock / France

Box iron, stirrup type / spring lock / France

Box iron, stirrup type / hinge-lock / France

Box iron, hinge-lock / France

Brass box iron with floral decoration and coat of arms / hinge-lock / Swiss / 17th century.

Brass box iron with floral decoration / hinge-lock / Swiss / 17th century.

Brass box iron / Denmark / hinge-lock / END 1669

Box iron / Side-swivel gate / France

Bonze box iron / hinge-lock / probably German

Brass box iron with coat of armes and Swiss cross / loose sliding gate / probably Swiss

Brass box iron / hinge-lock / Dolphin-shaped posts

Box iron drop shape, marked "Aldenhofen" / sliding gate / probably Scandinavian

Small brass and copper charcoal iron / Holland

Brass charcoal iron / Holland / La Haye / Inventory of 1809

Small brass charcoal iron / Holland / Origin: Castle of Fraeylemaborg Slochteren in Holland

Brass box iron in drop shape and trivet / Belgium

Box iron with brass decoration and trivet / Belgium

Small drop shape iron / steel with brass and copper / Belgium

Box iron in drop shape / Belgium

Iron fabricated by the Stove Manufacture Company in Sursee, American model with detachable handle / Swiss / after 1900

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Charcoal iron with Swiss cross / Helvetia (HLG) / probably made for the Swiss market by Grossag in Germany

Charcoal iron / lock in form of a swing with children / Swiss

Charcoal iron from the Victor Glutz-Blotzhein manufacture in Solothurn / Swiss / after 1870

Charcoal iron with Swiss cross / small model / Helvetia (HLG) / probably made for the Swiss market by Grossag in Germany

Tailor iron by the Stove Manufacturing Company Sursee in Sursee / No. 4 / Switzerland

1) Tailor iron by the Stove Manufacture Company Sursee in Sursee / No. 8 / Switzerland
2) Small tailor iron P.W. Nr. 2 K (Paul Wintenberger) France

2 ridged polish irons with brass grip 1) O M 2) O & Cie (both Geneva, Switzerland)

Oxtongue fabricated by the Foundry Von Roll & Company in Clus / Switzerland

So called "arsenal" cast iron / Swiss model with Swiss Cross No. 0

Cast iron / Swiss model / fabricated by E O & Company / No. 0

Cast iron / Swiss model / No. 4 / produced for H. Baillod Establishment in Neuenburg, Switzerland

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