Yesterday my mum went to visit my aunt at her house and came home with something that had been kept in the family for years and years, but had also not been used for years and years...
It was...an antique iron--the iron my grandfather and my grandmother used to iron clothes when my mum was just a little girl!
Being the modern girl I am, of course I was very excited...hehe><. Have you ever seen an antique iron? If you're about my age then you probably haven't...unless you're not......
It's also called a charcoal iron, and this is what it looks like.....
It's still covered in dust, rust, and all, but it seems to emanate a kind of quiant,...antique feeling and when I look at it I think about my grandparents and what it would have been like to iron clothes in the olden days....
When you release the catch at the end it opens like a crocodile's mouth, teeth and all, and according to my mum, people put hot coals into it to use it.
When they wanted to turn off the heat, they simply poured charcoal over the hot coals inside and...that was it, no electricity or anything needed, except for the fire to burn the coals.
Amazing, for the person who first thought of it=)
Anyway...then of course it was replaced with the electric ones we use today...and while I'm not sure which would cause less global warming, it's still great to have such an old piece of family 'heirloom' in the house.
To remind us of some of our unknown past....
edit @ 20 Nov 2009 02:22:34 by nun
