Cast Iron Cookware

Item 2236

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An excellent piece that will be great in your collection. This is a Griswold piece – based on the Colonial Breakfast skillet, made by Griswold for Sears & Roebuck to be sold under their Best Made brand. Sits dead flat with no wobble at all. Divided into three sections this skillet was designed to make a whole breakfast at one time – with a large portion for bacon and two egg compartments where the bacon grease could be used to cook the eggs. Cooking surface has the typical finish (slightly pebbled as these pieces could not be smoothed in the same way as round skillet).

Marked: “Best Made Bacon and Egg Fryer Patent Applied For 1257”

8” 7/8 x 9” Excluding the handle length.

Cleaned via lye method, hand buffed and seasoned with 3 layers of non-GMO canola oil.

No cracks or chips. No wobble, or bow when tested on a sheet of glass. Cooking surface is as good as they get, and is a good collector as well.

$125 shipped

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Item 2034

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Nice BSR (Birmingham Stove and Range) Century skillet from the 1950s.  Sits flat, smoothed but not stone polished (factory finish) – so it has a slightly textured surface.  This is a solid user level skillet that will be great for searing, and general cooking.   Like all BSR skillets this has a heat ring and the distinctive shaped to the underside of the handle.  There is a small casting flaw in the heat ring of this piece.

Marked: “Made in USA No. 5 8 1/8 In”

8” 1/8  diameter excluding spouts and handles.

Cleaned via lye method, hand buffed and seasoned with 3 layers of non-GMO canola oil.

No cracks, chips or wobble.   Cooking surface is non-polished BSR and is rougher than the glassy polished pieces that BSR produced. There are only a few tiny flea bite tool marks that should fill in easily with use.  Should only improve with use.

$37.99 shipped

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Item 2018
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Sold as found.  This one really is for wall hanging (although it could easily be restored) and we did not want to take away the signs of it’s age.  We did rub it down with oil just to prevent any further rust from damaging it.

Blacksmith made wrought iron 2 prong fork.  Probably made for hearth cooking.  This could have been made anytime from 1660-1900 so dating it is impossible.  J hooked at end for hanging.  It’s a very cool piece.
unmarked

20” long

Sold as found.  Just rubbed with oil to prevent damage.

No cracks or chips.

$50 shipped

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Item 2123

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Sold as found.

You don’t find a lot of old ones like this.  These were used from the pre-Revolutionary War period until about 1860.  Hearth trivets (also called high trivets, butler’s trivets, and footman’s trivets) were pretty much done by the 1860s – as hearths were replaced with wood stoves in homes across the Americas.  This is a hand wrought piece made by a blacksmith with an elaborate (but fanciful bird design).  I cannot tell if the plate is iron or steel – but I suspect it’s steel due to the thinness and detail work on the design.  Steel before 1857 was expensive (the cheap manufacturing of steel in factories started in the late 1850s following the development of the Bessemer converter), so this likely was owned by a very wealthy family (which also has to do with why these are called butler’s trivets, or footmen’s trivets as they’d use these to keep dishes warm by a hearth.  This is a great example with a lot of extra details, hand peened and a wood handle with a a brass ferrule.  Wood on handle is slightly split as can be seen in the pictures.

Stands roughly 9” tall, is 15” long at the longest points, and just over 7” wide on the plate.

Sold as found.

No cracks, chips. 

$165 shipped

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Item 2322

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Waterman style #3 gem pan with bottom gate.  This is based on the Nathanial Waterman Patent of 1859.   They were widely copied by a number of foundries and made without the Waterman name.  Waterman pans are end poured/gated but this one is bottom poured so it almost certainly came from another foundry.  Still it’s a gorgeous well made piece that shows how good small foundry iron could really be.   Ready for use or display this gem is in excellent condition – with it’s only imperfections are very minor pouring flaws from the foundry.  Underside of the cups are beautifully smootherd, while the interior is typical of gem pans that could not be stone polished on the interior.  You don’t find many this nice.

Marked bottom:  “3” on the underside of one handle.

12” 1/2 long x 8” 1/2, x 1” tall

Cleaned via lye method, hand buffed and seasoned with 3 layers of non-GMO canola oil.

No cracks or chips.  Sits on the gates so it does wobble (as expected) when tested on a sheet of glass.  Cooking surface is very good.

$80 shipped

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Item 1663
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A real mystery piece, and a very uncommon one as few foundries made dutch ovens in this size.  This is a gate marked dutch oven body made after 1865 but before 1900.  Gate is wide and crude which suggests an earlier date but the bail is machined wire, which was not available until after 1962.  While the bail could be a replacement, I don’t feel comfortable dating he piece as earlier.  Pot interior surface is pitted but not enough to prevent use.  Markings are all on bottom and are raised and crude.

Marked: “8 IN 1” on the bottom surrounding the bottom gate

8” diameter, ~3 high

Cleaned via lye method, hand buffed and seasoned with 3 layers of non-GMO canola oil.

No cracks, chips.  Wobbles on it’s gate.   Cooking surface is pitted but not enough to prevent use.  Will only get better.

$50 shipped

As always we are happy to take back pieces if you are not 100% satisfied.  (Please see return policy)