Collector’s Guide to Toasters & Accessories Identification & Values

  • Author(s): Helen Greguire
  • Category: Furniture & Furnishings
  • Publisher: Collector Books
  • Publish year: 1997
  • ISBN: 9780891457749
  • Number of Pages: 156

Although non-electric toasters did exist before the early 1900s, the electric toaster evolved from Albert Marsh's invention of "the nickel-chromium alloy with contents being very low in electrical conductivity, very infusible, non-oxidizable to a very high degree, tough and sufficiently ductile to permit drawing or shaping it into a wire for use as an electrical resistance element," the alloy that would be used for heating elements in early electric toasters.

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Why Collect Toasters and Accessories

About the Author

Introduction

Pricing Information

Toasters

UNMARKED TOASTERS

TOASTER ACCESSORIES

CATALOG REPRINTS