"Geneva Hand Fluter"
Object Details
- Description
- Small, two-piece hand fluter consisting of a wire handled, convex rocker or presser with the product name cast in across the top side of its corrugated plate, and a matching, flat, rectangular, corrugated bed with "PAT'D / 1866" cast in its underside; no base. Rocker handle has S-curve or gooseneck sides individually attached to bases or sockets in the plate.
- Maker is W. H. Howell Co. of Geneva, IL; Eben Danford and William H. Howell established the foundry in 1862 and Howell continued the business in 1866. Contemporary reference books cite Charles A. Sterling of New York, NY, who received U.S. Patent No. 57,403 for his "improvement in fluting-machines" on August 21, 1866, as the inventor of the "Geneva Hand Fluter". However, Illinois histories published in the 1870s credit Walter D. Turner (an employee or partner of Howell).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1866
- ID Number
- DL.307541.0006
- catalog number
- 307541.0006
- accession number
- 307541
- Object Name
- iron, fluting
- Physical Description
- metal, cast (rocker plate, bed material)
- iron wire (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm x 5.08 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Geneva
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Record ID
- nmah_311792
