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c. 1950

GE clothes iron

General Electric

Running about 76 years

A new 1950s iron, found in 2006

An old dry electric iron with no steam, from a museum collection in the Netherlands. Not a GE, and not the one in the story.
An old dry electric iron with no steam, from a museum collection in the Netherlands. Not a GE, and not the one in the story. Photo: RenseNBM, CC BY-SA 4.0. The real one is in the original post.

It turned up in a great-grandmother's basement in 2006, brand new. There's no steam setting, so a spray bottle handles that part. Its owner swears the shirts stay pressed longer than with a modern iron, then admits that's probably placebo. It feels good, though.

Retold from a post on r/BuyItForLife. Read the original

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