Antique 1890s Ives & Allen Cast Iron Sad Iron - Solid Metal Handle Montreal Foundry Press

Bring a heavy, grounding element of late 19th-century industrial history to your shelves with this authentic antique Ives & Allen Cast Iron Sad Iron.

Manufactured in Montreal, Canada, by the renowned Ives & Allen Co. at the turn of the century (circa 1880s–1900s), this solid-cast piece of household history was an absolute essential for traditional clothes pressing before the advent of electricity.

Cast as a single piece of solid iron with an integrated all-metal loop handle, this flatiron proudly features the crisp manufacturer's name "IVES & ALLEN" cast in bold raised relief directly across the top flat portion of the grip. The top face of the heavy base block also displays an intricate embossed regional design pattern. Over the span of a century, it has developed a magnificent, authentic dark gunmetal grey and heavily oxidized rustic patina. Utterly solid, incredibly heavy, and bursting with primitive character, it serves as a spectacular vintage doorstop, an industrial shelf bookend, a heavy desk paperweight, or a core addition to a collection of early American ironware.