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Goffering or 'tally iron', used for smoothing and crimping cuffs and frills on clothes. Described as '18th century English' in origin.
This goffering iron, or 'tally iron', was used for smoothing and crimping cuffs and frills on clothes. It has no stand but ends in a point which should probably be driven into a block of wood so that it could stand upright. It was formerly part of the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum; it was described there as '18th century English' in origin.

1 finishing iron: metal (wrought iron); fair condition- incomplete (stand and rods missing)

1700-01-01 - 1799-12-31

Eighteenth century

Iron, goffering, Iron, tally