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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Simon13 on December 10, 2012, 06:44:33 PM
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This piece is in bad shape. Just trying to figure out what it is. My first glance thought it was an old medical tool, then I was told curling iron, and a grape picking tool. The handles are silver but don't think I will scrap them for the sliver will keep them put them on a shelf.
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What do the tips look like?? To me it looks like a curling iron........based on what I see.
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What do the tips look like?? To me it looks like a curling iron........based on what I see.
No picture of the tip :( but they are blunt.
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Check out this link. ;)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Sterling-Silver-Handles-ANTIQUE-CIRCA-1800-S-Warming-HAIR-CURLING-IRON-/360503673590?pt=Antiques_Silver&hash=item53efb182f6
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What you have is a antique Victorian glove stretcher!! Not a curling iron I have been in the beauty industry for over 40 years!!
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Anyone that has ever accidentally touched a hot curling iron would know this isn`t one !!
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Correct mart antique curling irons often had wood (or a product that would not transfer so much heat as metal) handles so they would not burn your hands as the iron was placed over fire to heat!!
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Ok, that makes total sense. Sure looks like a curling iron though. I guess that person on Ebay had it miss marked.......
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Ok, that makes total sense. Sure looks like a curling iron though. I guess that person on Ebay had it miss marked.......
It was my guess to, but that is so cool glove glove stretchers... To beat to sell I think but they are a neat little piece of the past.
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Wendy got it right....it is a victorian style glove stretcher!!!!
You can find them made of metal, wood, bone and silver.
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What do the tips look like?? To me it looks like a curling iron........based on what I see.
No picture of the tip :( but they are blunt.
If you are thinking of scrapping them for the silver..then why can,t you take a pic of the tips??..you must have access to them...
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What do the tips look like?? To me it looks like a curling iron........based on what I see.
No picture of the tip :( but they are blunt.
If you are thinking of scrapping them for the silver..then why can,t you take a pic of the tips??..you must have access to them...
I will shoot a shot of the tips tonight.
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What do the tips look like?? To me it looks like a curling iron........based on what I see.
No picture of the tip :( but they are blunt.
If you are thinking of scrapping them for the silver..then why can,t you take a pic of the tips??..you must have access to them...
This one has a good look at the tips... Still not sure what to do with them... Don't want to scrap them. Might try to sell or i will keep and put on my shelf.
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I'm trying to figure out what happened to the handles. Do you think it had a stones on the handles and someone took them off?
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Looks like the scrapping has begun....their no worth anything now...antique wise,...your better aff finishing the job...and scrunch them proper like... ;D
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Looks like the scrapping has begun....their no worth anything now...antique wise,...your better aff finishing the job...and scrunch them proper like... ;D
Ya is kind of sad but I might just keep them around until I find ones in better shape. They are cool and are a snap in time. I hate scrapping stuff not sure why nothing is meant to last for ever. I just always feel bad when I do it.
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Look at it this way..if you scrap them...because as it stands..they are damaged...the money that they can generate..will give you funds to buy something else,...that can give you pleasure...I,m like that..I never get attached to anything...I buy what I like...enjoy it for a few years..then punt it and buy something else...and it goes on like this....
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I, on the other hand (and on the other side of the pond), would see if I couldn't find some cool cameo earrings (thus two cameos) or stones and have them added to the handles!
Just differing views! Depends how sentimental you are with them.