Iron Talk was published bi-monthly 1996-2002 by the late Jimmy & Carol Walker, well known iron collectors from Texas. Forty journals issued between 1995 and 2002. Every other month a different topic was discussed. Each issue was in an 8 1/2″ x 11″ booklet format with 14-16 pages printed on heavy stock.

Past issues of Iron Talk Journal are hard to come by! Issued by subscription, today the majority of bound sets reside in the libraries of collectors. If you are an iron collector or a trivet collector who would like to learn more about irons, this is a valuable reference.

PS: PITCA members (Pressing Iron & Trivet Collectors of America) have access to all 40 issues of Iron Talk through the organization’s Lending Library. This is yet another reason to JOIN PITCA!

Below are the subjects discussed in the 40 issues of Iron Talk.

1995
9/10: Charcoal Irons
11/12: Tailgates (Irons) & Pressed Glass

1996
1/2: Tuesday’s Children
3/4: Reversible Combination Irons
5/6: Poster Stamps & American Fluting Irons
7/8: Travel Irons
9/10: Little Fluters
11/12: Secrets of Cleaning Irons

1997
1/2: Tanks for the Memories
3/4: Not Quite Sprinklers
5/6: Mrs. Florence Potts
7/8: 19th Century Hatter Irons
9/10: Scottish Irons
11/12: Basic Iron Collecting

1998
1/2: Advanced Iron Collecting
3/4: Record Keeping For Iron Collectors
5/6: Early Coleman Irons
7/8: Clothes Sprinklers
9/10: Little Swan Irons
11/12: Flatiron Building Collectibles

1999
1/2: Light My Fire
3/4: The Ephrata Swan
5/6: The Dover Family
7/8: Provenance
9/10: Brimfield
11/12: Little French Irons

2000
1/2: Displaying Your Collection
3/4: Patent Models
5/6: Korean Stone Iron
7/8: Black Memorabilia for Iron Collectors
9/10: Letterhead Art
11/12: Coleman Irons

2001
1/2: Too Hot To Handle
3/4: Primitive Irons
5/6: Irons of the Old West
7/8: Shepard Fluters
9/10: Polishers
11/12: Streamlined Irons

2002
1/2: Shapers
3/4: It’s a Small, Small World

IRON TALK: Journal of Antique Pressing Irons. Shared with pemission from the Trivetology blog of Margaret Lynn Rosack.