Toy Waffle Iron: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Miniature or toy size, stove-top waffle iron consisting of a bail-handled collar or ring base that holds two, identical, wooden-handled, circular pans with gridded faces. Projecting from opposite edges of each pan are half a ball bearing and a handle shank with lug and hollow. When the pans are placed face-to-face, the ball bearing and interlocked handle fit in a corresponding socket and notch in the base. Backs of both pans have "”WAGNER” (arched) / PAT\D/.. / FEB 22 / 1910 / SIDNEY, O (curved)" cast in incuse sans serif letters; no marks on base.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1910 - 1920
• patent date: 1910-02-22
• maker: Wagner Manufacturing Company
• Object Name: iron, waffle, toy
• Physical Description: iron, cast (overall material)
• Physical Description: wood (pan handles material)
• Physical Description: wire, iron (base handle material)
• Measurements: overall: 1 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 19.685 cm x 11.43 cm
• place made: United States: Ohio, Sidney
• place used: United States: New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Subject: Toys
• ID Number: DL.67.0369
• catalog number: 67.0369
• accession number: 263810
• Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Elmore
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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