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  2. Mary Florence Potts - Wikipedia

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    Mary Florence Potts (née Webber; November 1, 1850 – June 24, 1922) was an American businesswoman and inventor.She invented clothes irons with detachable wooden handles, and they were exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition World's Fair and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

  3. Clothes iron - Wikipedia

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    Other box irons had heated metal inserts instead of hot coals. From the 17th century, sadirons or sad irons (from Middle English "sad", meaning "solid", used in English through the 1800s [4]) began to be used. They were thick slabs of cast iron, triangular and with a handle, heated in a fire or on a stove. These were also called flat irons.

  4. List of American cast-iron cookware manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    A collection of vintage cast iron cookware. Most of the major manufacturers of cast iron cookware in the United States began production in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Cast-iron cookware and stoves were especially popular among homemakers and housekeepers during the first half of the 20th century.

  5. Griswold Manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Griswold cast-iron pots and pans, skillets, dutch ovens, and other kitchen items had a reputation for high quality, and they are well known to antique collectors and sellers. The easily recognized "cross" logo seen on Griswold products from the 1910s through the 1960s was modified several times over the years.

  6. 'Antiques Roadshow:' See a whale tooth worth more than $150K

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    On a brand-new episode of "Antiques Roadshow" Monday, a Fred Myrick scrimshaw tooth got a price tag that would probably put said fairy in a lot of. ... it must be over 100 years old, and the owner ...

  7. Malleable Iron Range Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1902, the company had about 20 employees. The average price of its ranges was about $60 ($2,100 in 2023 dollars), which was about twice the selling price of the typical range of the time. Despite the high price, the ranges sold well as they were recognized as being a much better quality and easier to use than the typical range sold at the time.

  8. Obsolete golf clubs - Wikipedia

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    The traditional set of irons was invented by Archibald Barrie, and was used from 1903 until about the 1940s. The introduction of the standardized numbered iron set produced by the Spalding Sporting Goods Company in the early 1930s caused the traditional set of irons to give way gradually to the numbered set.

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