Does anyone know about vintage clothes sprinkler bottles?

[Vinca]

In all my years of picking, I've never run across any until this year. Now I've got a yellow clothespin sprinkler and a pink elephant with clovers on his tummy. I've found sales of blue clothespin sprinkler bottles and pink elephants without clovers, but none for the exact ones I have. Trying to figure out pricing.

[grasswire]

1. oh, those sound fun

I pick up clothspin bags when I see them if they are interesting or filled with old clothspins. But I never thought about looking for sprinklers. What were the prices on the ones you saw?

[Vinca]

2. The pink elephant without the clover sold on ebay for $25.

I get the impression the clover one is more valuable, but I haven't found one for sale anywhere. There was a blue clothespin one on ebay that sold for $119. (There's another sale there billed as a yellow clothespin sprinkler, but that's not it.) When I first found the yellow clothespin sprinkler there was another blue one on ebay that sold for $172. That Worthpoint site has the magic number, I'm sure, but I'm too cheap to pay them when I can usually find the values on my own.

[Paper Roses]

3. I can tell you only that I had to use these darn things as a kid.

Sprinkle clothes, roll up, refrigerator overnight and then iron after school the next day.
Geeze, I never made my kids do that. Saw one of those bottles at a sale last weekend. Couldn't even look at it. Visions of hell. A 12 year old should not have to iron like a professional. My mother was a perfectionist.
Phooey!

[Vinca]

4. OMG - are we old! Fortunately, I lived with my grandmother

and she barely bothered to fold things let alone iron them.

[grasswire]

5. when I was in high school I did ironing for a neighbor family

A LOT of ironing. But I don't think I had a sprinkler bottle. I had a spritzer, I think. Or maybe I just sprinkled the stuff by hand. I'm gonna look for these at sales. I actually like to iron. Smells good, love the orderliness of a pile of ironed things. It's better than some other household tasks IMO. :-)

[Vinca]

6. The best household tasks are the ones done by someone else.

Yesterday I caught my husband vacuuming! It was a dream come true.

[mopinko]

7. we had a little tin sprinkler head in a cork that

you put on a coke bottle. i liked to iron as a kid. now i am not sure i remember how.

[Vinca]

8. For the first 20 years of marriage I ironed everything.

It was horrible. Then I met a woman at an auction who looked at me as if I'd come from Mars when I mentioned ironing something. Everything she and her husband owned went from dryer to hanger, end of story. I gave it a try and now I'm a committed non-ironer.

[northoftheborder]

9. clothes sprinkling and ironing

I love cotton blouses, and they look and feel so good when sprinkled and ironed. I learned to iron before steam irons came out, but stopped sprinkling for years, using a steam iron and spray starch. I got sick of getting spray starch all over the place, and started doing it "right" again; actually it's faster ironing a dampened cloth than messing with spray starch. I wish I had a sprinkling topper; I've been using a spray-top bottle. I do as the poster above, roll up the sprayed items, put in a plastic bag, put in refrigerator for a while, then iron. I usually save up a bunch of things, put on a movie, and iron away! it's one of the most satisfying of household chores for me. My most hated chore was washing dishes!!!