Featured is a wonderful antique curling iron.
- Non-electric curling irons are fun beauty-related items to collect.
- In 1872, Marcel Grateau patented the first curling iron made from heavy tongs and rounded internal surfaces.
- Vintage hair curling irons are highly collectible.
- Curling irons were heated on the fire or the stove.
- When the metal portions were hot, it was wrapped around a small piece of hair to produce a ringlet.
- If the iron was used for crimping hair, then there would be two metal pieces that could be manipulated to press the hair between them.