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Description

A great RARE Le Caiffa Flat Iron, No 5 - Made in Haifa, Israel by German Templars, late 1800s
In the late 1800s Messianic German Templars moved to Le Caiffa (as they called Haifa), started a steam generating plant and opened factories.
One of these factories was an iron forge which produced these clothes pressing irons for local use and export.
Stamped into top side of iron: Bas Relief of man sitting at table drinking, Le Caiffa, No 5.
Haifa was a pre-dominantly Muslim country, so the drinking man would be a figure familiar to the Christian Germans, but not the local Muslims.
The man is sitting at a heavy wooden plank table with a bench and is wearing traditional Northern European clothing, including a wide brimmed hat.
Made in Israel
Found in France
dimensions -
4.4''/11 cm - max height
3.8''/9.5 cm - max width
6.2''/15.5 cm - length
1.315 kg - weight
In a very good vintage condition