Electric Iron

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Object Name: 
Electric Iron
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
2005.4.22
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.5 cm, W: 22.7 cm, W: 9.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
made in 1946
designed in 1943
Primary Description: 
Almost colorless glass with yellowish tint, red stain?, metal, cloth cord, plastic cover. Iron with red interior and silver colored metal base.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Pattern Name: 
Silver Streak
Provenance: 
Emmons, David D., Former Collection
2005-03-17
Color: 
colorless
yellow
red
silver
Technique: 
molding
Material: 
borosilicate glass
metal
cloth
plastic
Inscription: 
Silver Streak
Inscription
: 
Stamped On back of iron, metal iron rest in script
SAUNDERS SINCE 1858 / MODEL 1036 / 1000 WATTS / 110-120 VOLTS A.C. ONLY
Inscription
: 
Stamped Underside of metal iron rest on the back.
PYREX
Inscription
: 
Pressed into iron On back of iron, visible through glass.
Copyright: 
© Corning Glass Works, Corning

Exhibitions (1)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show

Publications (6)

Pyrex: A Century of Pyrex (2015-11) illustrated, p. 14, (fig. 7);
Cooking with Glass: How Pyrex Transformed Every Kitchen into a Home-Ec Lab (2015-06-10) illustrated, p. 5 (top right); BIB# AI100652
Rarely Seen and Unusual Glass (2011) illustrated, p. 62; BIB# AI89754
Curiously Interesting: The Corning Museum of Glass Presents All things Odd and Glass (2007-06) illustrated, p. 19; BIB# AI72435
Curiosities of Glassmaking (2007-04-02) illustrated, p. 1A;
Recent Acquisitions (2006) illustrated, p. 12; BIB# AI69872