Author Topic: Help ID a couple skillets please (Read 4023 times)

Tommy Harris · « **on:** July 27, 2016, 07:08:23 PM »

I am watching an auction right now and it ends this evening. I would like the BSR No 8, but it's already at $30ish. Any ideas what the pan on the right or the small pan laying down are? The handle.looks familiar on the small one but I didn't have any luck finding a similar one.

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #1 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:10:51 PM »

Couple more pics. Unfortunately these are the best pics they have. :/

Adam Hoagland · « **Reply #2 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:24:13 PM »

Understand as you read this response that I'm typing it with my entire foot firmly inserted into my own mouth up to the molars, since I don't collect Vollrath and don't really need to ID it at a glance, but I'll tentatively, sheepishly suggest that the handle on the skillet lying down looks Vollrath-ish to my unaccustomed eye. They made a lot of unmarked pans that just had a size number, but usually the number was cast on sideways, I think. Check your red book, if you have one. I just checked mine, and then I opened up and swallowed toes.

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #3 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:30:59 PM »

Unfortunately, I do not have a red book. Just a blue book. Guess what's next on my list. Lol Thank you very much.

Mark R. Smith · « **Reply #4 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:59:30 PM »

I also sticking my foot out but in the top picture the one on the right might be a unmarked Wagner by the handle.

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #5 on:** July 27, 2016, 08:11:42 PM »

It's already pushing $50. These things really take off. The BSC seems to do really well on goodwill

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #6 on:** July 27, 2016, 08:38:10 PM »

What is BSC?

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #7 on:** July 27, 2016, 08:40:51 PM »

Possible BSR... Possible Newer Wagner... and Vollrath.

Without closer more defined picts that show markings... it is a crap shoot.

Reasons why I have NEVER bid anything on Goodwill.....

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #8 on:** July 27, 2016, 08:42:20 PM »

BSR was also heavily copied and 'reproduced'... and that heat ring looks inset a bit over what I would expect to see... or it could be a less than good pic...

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #9 on:** July 27, 2016, 08:55:10 PM »

Oops, BSR is what I meant.

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #10 on:** July 27, 2016, 09:00:40 PM »

There's a close up of the marking on the BSR.

Corinne Wetzel · « **Reply #11 on:** July 28, 2016, 07:51:46 PM »

About the #3 skillet:
It's hard to tell from the photo whether it's a Vollrath or one of the unmarked #3 skillets that turn up from time to time and are often mistaken for a Vollrath. They have a similar handle, a heat ring, and a nice smooth finish. They don't have the sideways number of an unmarked Vollrath. I've attached photos of one of these mysterious #3 skillets. I have come across quite a few (at least a dozen) here in Virginia, and have bought several. They're nice skillets but there's no evidence, as far as I know, as to who made them. I suppose Vollrath could have made some totally unmarked skillets, but I haven't heard anyone discuss that possibility.

I believe that I've seen these little unmarked skillets discussed on the forum, but I wasn't sure how to search to find a link. Searching under "skillet" or "unmarked" seemed somewhat futile! :D

Tommy Harris · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2016, 07:59:38 PM »

Thank you guys very much for all the info. I passed on this auction and went and bid on and won a couple others. :)

Jonathan Sutton · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2016, 08:48:04 PM »

We have one of those #3 skillets. It was sold to us as a Vollrath. There are many other 'mystery' skillets (as my usual guy calls them) in these parts. No one knows who made them, and probably no one ever will.

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2016, 09:34:08 PM »

I believe that the unmarked are Vollrath. :)

Corinne Wetzel · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2016, 10:53:56 PM »

Cheryl,
Is the little one in my photos a Vollrath? And if it is, is it the handle that's the tip off? The tiny "3" on the underside of the handle tip is often on there. I see these unmarked #3s really often--more often than I see marked Vollraths. And they're usually a bargain, usually $3 to $5 after the haggling.

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #16 on:** July 29, 2016, 12:38:29 AM »

The Vollrath handle is just so distinctive, yes. Also the number on top of the handle.

What I believe is that Vollrath evolved, and the unmarked skillets were quite likely from the end of the CI production era... in the 60's... JMO.

I think your little one is Vollrath.

I am not fond of the later Vollrath's. Somewhere around here I have a #8 that I call my Fugly skillet. Heavy as all get out, and not the greatest Casting... but I think I gave $2 for it. :P I also have a stack of some 3's sitting... somewhere... maybe I'll find them soon out in the Garage, as I am trying to find my 'lost' stacks... ::)

PS... I very rarely pay any attention to any markings on the underside of handles, numbers or letters, because other than a pattern mark, the purpose will probably never be known, except to the manufacturer... :)

Corinne Wetzel · « **Reply #17 on:** July 29, 2016, 06:57:59 PM »

Thank you! That's useful info.

I saw another #3 like that today, but it was no bargain. It was in an antique shop where all the very ordinary CI had huge price tags. The unmarked Vollrath #3 was $24. A #5 Wagner General Housewares skillet was $29! It was ridiculous.

Cheryl Watson · « **Reply #18 on:** July 29, 2016, 07:30:43 PM »

Oh dear...

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