- Condition: Cancelled (o)
- Year: 2012
- Catalogue: LPMP
- Number(s): 1952
- Catalog value: 2,9 Lei
- Internal ID: 006_38
- Size: 94x94 mm
- Categories: iron, flatiron, sad-iron, household, household
equipment, handicraft, antique, old iron, old Press, textile,
textile hand Press
- DE: Rumänien, Historische Bügeleisen (II).
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PRESSING IRONS (II)
– Romanian collections
The appearance of the pressing irons is the result of researches
of clothes manufacturers in order to harmonize the consumers’
pretentions with the evolution of fashion.
The manufacturing technology used solutions that had to
correlate the shape and weight of pressing irons to the manner in
which the heat sources was ensured. The first models using coal
were equipped with ingenious systems of air access to maintain
burning and to reduce the quantity of smoke released.
The aspect of the pressing irons with shapes that imitated
birds, animals or ships, represented an important element for their
trading. Once with the appearance of the electrical pressing iron
and then of the steampressing iron that became popular after 1940,
the changes experimented in their market became more and more
frequent. The first company introducing the steampressing iron that
flattened and finished off the rumpled cloth more easily, was Eldec
Company.
Then followed new transformations in terms of design adapted to
consumer’s taste, consumption habits and needs.
The competition of the companies that manufacture pressing irons
focuses, besides their modernization, on the easy use, reduced
power consumption and reliability.
Today, the classification of the electrical pressing irons is
made depending on temperature adjustment, steam production, the
type of control for steam release, water pulverization and voltage
or depending on their use, such as pressing irons for industrial,
domestic or general use or for travelling.
But, the pressing iron has acquired from the very beginning
another utility, except its use for pressing clothes, namely it has
become a widespread collection product.
Many collectors fond of this household object have gathered over
the year tens and hundreds of such objects. They are presented
during congresses that are held in different cities of Europe.
This year, the 14th International Congress of Pressing Irons
Collectors takes place in Sinaia between 1st and 3rd September.
This Congress is held every 3 years and in 2012 it is organized
for the first time in Romania.
On this occasion, Romfilatelia completes the first series of a
postage stamps issue having an original theme and introduces into
circulation the postage stamps issue Pressing irons (II) –
Romanian collections, consisting of six stamps and one imperforated
souvenirsheet.
The postage stamps illustrate pressing irons of different
centuries from Belgium, Burma (Myanmar Union), Italy, Switzerland,
Sweden and USA.
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