Author Topic: Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957  (Read 923 times)

Offline Bret Terry

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Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957
« on: September 29, 2014, 06:08:20 PM »
Trying to determine the approximate value of this unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957.  And where does this fit on the common-to-rare scale?


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Re: Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2014, 07:59:17 PM »
Hello Brett. According to Haussler, who wrote the book on Griswold muffin pans, there is only variation of that pan. And he says its not a much loved pan. As for price he says 800.00 to one thousand dollars. So its a good pan to find, a good pan to own, or a good one to buy, or a good one to sell. What you could get out of one of them, maybe between two and three hundred dollars. Maybe more, depends on who wants it on what day. Now there is another 24 muffin pan but its a different animal and worth more. I hope that helps some.  :)

Offline Adam Hoagland

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Re: Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2014, 08:04:47 PM »
[size=12]I'm looking in the Yellow Book (Jon Haussler's Griswold Muffin Pans, which is a guide specific to bread pans, muffin pans, and the like.  The actual book was published in 1997, so adjust mentally as you see fit.

Haussler gives each pan a price range and a rarity rating.  He says that your pan is very rare (9 out of 10, where 10 is the highest,) but that it's a "mysterious" pan about which little is known.  Griswold made a No. 21 bread stick pan (p/n 961) that was identical to this pan but had their name cast onto it on the bottom of section 2, and EPU cast onto the bottom of section 5..  (Those have a rarity rating of 5 out of 10, by the way...)  The mystery seems to be centered on why they made one that hasn't got their name on it.  Haussler's picture also has hang holes drilled in each tab, just like yours, so you can rest assured that they were probably both factory original rather than drilled after the fact, in case you were wondering.  It might be that this was made for hardware stores to sell as their own stock, like a lot of the other unmarked pieces, but that's just a guess.

Haussler says $800-$1000 in 1997.  He amends this by saying that a lot of collectors aren't too keen on this pan, since it's sans Griswold markings.  Still, though, it sounds like it's a rare bird.  I'd hang onto it, were I you.

I'm no expert on muffin pans, by the way.  I have a few, but it's not a focus.[/size]

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Re: Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2014, 08:26:56 PM »
Why are we saying this is an 'unmarked' pan. I sure would not call it that. Its got all kinds of markings on it.  :-/

Offline Randy Eckstein

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Re: Unmarked Griswold #24 Corn Bread Pan #957
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2014, 08:28:40 PM »
Hi Bret, I have two of these and as the others have indicated, the demand versus the described rarity don't match up as well as some of the other rarer gem pans when it comes to value.  I'd say the low end of Perry's evaluation is probably close to what current retail is.
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