Article: Sad Iron Man: A Maine Geologist featuring Kevin & Kate McCartney. Collector's Weekly, 8/21/2020.
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:
#86: Antique collecting "Go-Withs" A quick overview of a few of the "go-withs" in Kevin's collection.
#85: Collar Irons of Troy, NY Travel with Kevin to learn a bit about a fascinating slice of American industrial history.
#84: Round Backed Sad Irons A brief overview of the stylistic design of round-backed flat irons.
#83: More Sad Iron Heating Devices Kevin gives a guided tour through some of his latest devices used to heat irons.
#82: Sad Irons from the Wapak Hollow Ware Company The types of irons made by the Wapak Hollow Ware Company of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
#81: Firing Up a 1913 Acorn Gasoline Iron 100-plus-years old technology can be a little fussy!
#80: Coleman Gasoline & Electric Irons Come with Kevin as he visits a museum in the heart of Amish country dedicated to all things Coleman Manufacturing.
#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
#74: Old irons with Animal themes