Article: Sad Iron Man: A Maine Geologist featuring Kevin & Kate McCartney. Collector's Weekly, 8/21/2020.
Only have a minute? Enjoy and share these brief videos that introduce different aspects of iron collecting!
#18: Teensy Mrs. Potts Sad Iron
#16: A Cool Rotating Iron
#15: A German Coal Tailor's Iron
#10: Trouser Press Iron
#9: Weird Slug Iron
#8: Quick Meal Sad Iron Heater
#6: The Gem Fluter
#3: Liquid Fuel Iron
PITCA members Kevin and Kate McCartney live in Caribou, Maine. Together, they are producing a series of videos about iron collecting that can be found at Kevin Talks Irons on YouTube. (Links to each individual video are shared below.)
This series debuted on June 14, 2020 and feature Kevin talking about a wide variety of topics related to antique pressing irons, collecting, antiquing, and a few biographies of the more prominent iron inventors. It is intended to educate and entertain the avid collector, beginning collector, antique shop owner, pickers and novices alike. Each video is a mini lesson on a different topic about irons.
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✽ The Most Recent Videos:
#79: Tole & Other Painted Irons Kevin explores the world of irons that have taken on new life as folk art.
#78: Amish Use of Old Irons Kevin visits the heart of Amish country in Pennsylvania to visit an Amish man who refurbishes antique irons for resale - for use in present day Amish households.
#77: 188x to 189x Trivets Here is a unique grouping of dated trivets about which very little is known.
#20 Buying Old IronsTechniques and strategies for buying irons.
#22 Millinery (Ball, Egg & Flower) Irons
#23 Wood Stove Heaters for Old Irons
#25 Foundries that Manufactured Old Irons
#26 Finding & Reading Old Iron Patents
#30 Standing Irons (mostly Goffers)
#32 Kerosene Stoves and the Sad Iron Heaters that love them
#33 Natural Gas Sad Iron Heaters
#36 The Old Irons of Nelson R. Streeter
#38 Top 10 Old Irons for the Beginning Collector
#40 Asbestos - Dover and Related Old Irons
#41 Mangles and other Wooden Devices for Pressing Fabric
#42 American Small and Toy Old Irons
#43 Old Sad Irons as Advertising
#50 Documenting Your Collection
#51 Twenty-five Categories of American Laundry Irons
#53 Monitor & Royal (Gasoline) Sad Irons
#54 Firing Up the 1903 Monitor Gasoline Iron
#55: Using a Coal Iron in India
#56: Testing Ftat Irons vs Slug Irons
#57: Old Irons in (the Original) Boxes
#58: Imperial Brass gasoline irons
#59: At Convention: Favorite Old Irons of PITCA Members
#60: Old Irons with "Something Special"
#65: IWANTU and UNEEDIT Natural Gas Sad Irons
#66: Blacksmithed Wrought/Forged Sad Irons
#67: "Interesting" old sad irons
#68: "Interesting" fluter/fluting Irons
#69: Fluter/fluting Irons Variability
#70: The Howell Co. from Geneva, Illinois
#71: The A.C. Williams foundry
#73: American Machine Company fluting irons and trade cards