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This box iron originally came from Plymouth. It is made of wrought iron, with a turned wooden handle (though the iron heater is missing from this specimen). Box irons were in used since the eighteenth century and work on the same principle as goffering irons; they contain a solid iron block which is removed from the iron, heated in the fire, then replaced to heat the iron right through.

box iron: iron, wood

Metal, iron, Wood