Antique Late 1800s Ober Mfg Co Cast Iron Sad Iron - Solid Metal Handle Clothes Press

Manufactured in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, by the renowned Ober Manufacturing Company at the turn of the century (circa 1890s–1910s), this solid-cast piece of household history was an absolute essential for traditional clothes pressing before the advent of electricity.

Cast as a single, powerful piece of solid iron with an integrated all-metal handle, this flatiron proudly features the crisp manufacturer's name "OBER MFG CO" cast in bold raised relief directly across the top of the grip. 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.