Vintage Frigidaire Advertising Piece

[drummerboy928]

Recently I was browsing Ebay and found something that fought my eye. It appeared to be an agitator out of a late 50s or early 60d Frigidaire Unimatic machine, so I clicked on it. After reading the description I found it was something that Frigidaire used to advertise their Unimatic washers, and was much smaller than the actual thing. Despite not knowing if it was actually old or just something someone recreated, I decided to buy it since it was only 20 bucks with free shipping. Now that it’s here, can anyone tell me if this is truly from the 50s? There appears to be a tiny bit of yellowing on one side which leads me to believe it is, but i’m not familiar with old Frigidaire advertising to be able to say for sure or not.

 

[lotsosudz]

A laundry sprinkler

It looks like a laundry sprinkler, that women used when ironing. Either to wet the laundry, prior to ironing, or to be used while ironing, prior to steam irons
Just my thought!
Hugs,
David

 

[frigilux]

Our neighbors got one of these with their TOL 1958 set. It sat on a shelf collecting dust, so one day it jumped into the pocket of my winter coat! An ecstatic 10-year old Frigilux paired it with a 5-qt ice cream pail and pulsated away on all sorts of little loads.

 

[nathaniel]

Amazing Find!

Looks like something I would use to make a Mini frigidaire out of a salad spinner. Cant beat the $20 price tag

 

[circlew]

Yes, you fill it with water to sprinkle items before ironing. My mom got one from her friend Mary Elizabeth, whose husband was the manager of the local Frigidaire dealer. 1958 sounds about right, and we had it for several years.

 

[launderess]

Welcome to my world

Have one of those Frigidaire laundry sprinklers for ages sitting on shelf.

Since one irons damp laundry dry, don't have much use for the thing. When do need to dampen something have a Japanese plant mister (all heavy stainless steel and Bakelite) that puts out a fine mist. Far better than sprinkling.

Indeed laundry manuals back in day warned housewives and anyone else doing laundry about careless sprinkling. Problem is too large droplets can cause water spots that won't be erased by ironing. Especially when goods had been heavily or even moderately starched.

 

[mixguy]

My grandmother had one of these!

As a young child I would pretend to be washing in her dishpan of sudsy water at the kitchen sink! It was her sprinkler to dampen clothes for ironing. She never had a steam iron.

She was a widow with 8 children in 1933. She did laundry, sewing on a Singer treadle machine and ironing. As a child I remember having several irons including a kerosene model. Some of them were used as doorstops in her home. She also maintained a sizable vegetable garden and made her own bread until she was 92 years old!

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have never used mine for sprinkling, but I do keep a little spritzer bottle or a bottle from a spray cleaner with the the trigger sprayer close to me when ironing to erase "cat faces" or creases that I manage to iron into a shirt at least once in an ironing session either with the hand iron or the Ironrite. I have a bag of dish towels that need to be washed. I will take them out of the Miele and run them through the Ironrite.

 

[sfh074]

I have one as well ....

because I had to have one to go with my agitators!

The yellow ring on the sprinklers were always too yellow, but close enough for a freebie back in the day.