Clothes Iron, Coleman Lamp Stove Co Ltd, Spirit-fuelled Clothes Iron, Estimated circa 1936

Historical information

Coleman Lamp Stove Co Ltd possibly making irons by arrangement with Coleman Lamp & Stove Co Ltd in Canada.
Origin of these companies - started by William Coleman of Oklahoma and Kansas, USA.

Physical description

Iron has chrome plated sole - blue enamel body with white speckles and hemispherical tank (probably copper - has typical green verdigris appearance) for the lighting fluid that would have supplied the heat. The wooden handle is painted blue. Top screw is missing from the fuel tank.

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