I've got a stone-aged one, probably from the 1930ies. Wooden handle, black rubber cord, really heavy, 85W. I bought it for 70 cents!
It works great for soldering all kinds of wires, mostly patching phone cords. Phone wire is helluva expensive here, so I use lots of long scraps, and for occasional runs between floors I have to solder 2 of them together. When they renovated our school they threw away several pieces of brand new phone wire, up to 18m in length! Well, our government obviously can afford it. Back then they had the entire building wired twice because nothing worked the first time, and even then the bell system didn't work. The first weeks in the new building all teachers took their own alarm clocks.
