Griddles, Long Pans, Sad Iron Trays

Item 1415
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At first glance this seems a very ordinary fancy handled round griddle, but when you turn it over you see a very unique handle design and unusual marking.  I have no clue who made this piece (and I’d really like to know as it is one of the coolest handled griddles I’ve ever stumbled across).  Handle is hollowed on the upper side with what almost appears to be a deep well at the edge where the handle meets the griddle.  Cooking surface shows some some big voids where pouring occurred and air or debris was trapped.  Outside of that area surface is very nicely smoothed.   Bottom has a nice distinct inset heat ring.  Inside the ring you can see minor pitting from use on a wood stove.

Only marking is a “9”

10” 1/2 diameter

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

No cracks, chips.  Small wobble when tested on a sheet of glass.   Cooking surface primitive with some casting flaws but pretty good for the age.  Will only get better with use.

$80 shipped

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Item 1971

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Collector grade! This one is a bit of a mystery, I’m not sure if this was sprue marked, bottom gated, or side gated.  Based on the style, I’d lean towards this being a 1870-1910 piece, and it has marks that look like, a sprue, a side gate, and under a bright light even a bottom gate.  Thus I’m basing the age on design and bail material (which says it was made after 1865 to possibly as late as 1920).  Really nicely designed and beautifully cast.  Spectacular polishing marks, New England style ears, and heat ring.  Almost glassy to the touch cooking surface – which isn’t quite perfect due to casting flaws, including  pour line where the mold wasn’t perfect and tiny casting voids (almost looks like very superficial pinpoint pitting).   Center of the griddle like many that were cast this thin shows a downward bow which could not be polished away.  Bottom shows some broad shallow pitting from use over a wood stove.  Edges show grind marks where the foundry removed flash, or a side gate.  Remarkable for the age.

Marked: Has a raised number 14 about 1/2” high.

13” 3/4 diameter (excluding ears)

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

No cracks or chips, and no movement when you rock it from the center.  From the edge you can get a tiny bit of movement BUT that’s due to the center of gravity on a piece this wide and this old.  There are some imperfections on the edge which you can see look a tiny bit like gate marks but it probably was from being touched up at the factory before it was sent out (see photo).  the center also has a bit of a bow, but that’s very common on pieces of this age, or even of this width.  This will be a glassy, top flight user after just a handful of uses.  This one is an absolute amazing example of an 19th century griddle

$135 shipped

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Item 1442
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Unrestored.  Sold as found.

Very early bailed griddle c. 1850-1860 with New England ears, hand wrought iron bail and raised lip.  This is probably one of the earliest bailed griddles ever made.  The bail on these pieces was made more for storing the piece than it was for hanging over a fire BUT this one is so tight on the shifting it could have been used that way.   This is really a display piece, although it could be used if you really wanted to.  Piece has some pitting over the whole surface but after 150-170 years I’m impressed it’s this nice.  Gate marked on the bottom.

12” 1/2 diameter

Unrestored

No cracks, chips.

$85 shipped

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Item 1934
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Favorite never made a handled griddle smaller than this one and it is a VERY uncommon piece as it is even smaller than the Wagner #6 round griddle.  You can still see the ghost of where the Favorite Piqua Ware was blocked out on this skillet.  Made between 1916-1934.  This one is a true collector piece in outstanding condition.  Sits flat, great polishing marks (often incorrectly called mill marks) and a glassy cooking surface.  Ready to be used or hung on a wall.  Only flaws on this piece are flea bite tool marks (very fine) and typical casting flaws.  The stone polished cooking surface (factory done) is beautiful.  Bottom shows that the polishing was only done on the cooking surface.  Really a special piece.

Marked: “7” with what appears to be half a “B” on the bottom, where you can also see where the Favorite Piqua Ware logo was blocked out..

8” 5/8 diameter

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

No cracks, chips, bow or wobble when tested on a sheet of glass.   Cooking surface is glassy with very few flea bite tool marks.  Will only get better with use.

$135 shipped

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Item 1579
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Somewhere about 1860 bailed griddles, which differ from hanging griddles, came into fashion.  The bails were more for storage than for cooking, but this one has a bail meant for lifting out of a stove eye and features a squared top bail instead of a rounded one.  As it is a wire bail, rather than a blacksmith made one it does date after 1864 when wire bails became available.  Bottom gated, with New England style ears, with a well defined 1/2” wide ring and a bottom designed to fit perfectly into a 10” stove eye so that the griddle would sit flush on the top of the stove.   Sits on it’s gate mark so it will wobble on glass.  some sulfur pitting, on the bottom and casting flaws on the cooking surface.

Completely unmarked

11” diameter

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

No cracks, chips.  Sits on it’s gate mark and not designed to sit flat, but will do so inside a stove eye.  Cooking surface leans towards the primitive but would have been considered great back when it was made.  You can see casting flaws and age.   Will improve greatly with use.

$100 shipped

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Item 1963
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Collector grade.  An amazing example of small foundry work  This is what the manufacturers referred to as a deep long pan, but many still call a shallow fish fryer, poacher or griddle.   The truth is it can be used for any or all of those things.  Features a ~3/4” well, 1” wide lip  Interior on this one is gorgeous not quite glassy, due to the pouring flaws at the gate, but due to how this was polished it is not far from being glassy.  I think it will get there easily with just a little use.  You can see where the iron was poured in via the gates, on the cooking surface but the polishing has smoothed most of it away.  Double gated.  Bottom shows some wood stove use with roughness due to the sulfur released.

Marked on the bottom with a raised 8 near one handle and “Ex. C” on the other side.  Could this be an Excelsior?  or maybe it was designating it as Extra something (I can’t think what the C might have stood for)?

22” 1/4 handle to handle, 20” 1/2 outer lip to outer lip x 10” wide,  inner cooking area ~ 18” x 7” 5/8

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

No cracks or chips.   Sits on it’s gate mark so has a short axis wobble when tested on a sheet of glass.  Cooking surface as good as you can hope to find on one of these.

$89 shipped

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