ID help, please :)

[Susan Floyd]

EDIT: I added two more pictures in the reply below.

I picked this up and there are conflicting ideas on what it is. I have attached a picture of the gate mark and mark on bottom. It has a raised 8 on the handle and small double pourers.
The only possible notch in the heat ring would be below the "X", but it is not as big as a standard notch in a Lodge. The "X" is at the handle.
I am wondering if it could be one some made off another (recast?).
Help, please.

[Cheryl Watson]

Susan, hello and Welcome to WAGS!
It would be helpful to have pictures of the complete bottom of the skillet that includes the handle. And another picture of the top of the skillet, including the handle.

2 additional pictures may be added to your original post (maximum of three pictures per post).

My initial impression is that this is a recast.

[Susan Floyd]

Here are the other two I took.
My initial thought is a recast, as well...however, I am the only one here who seems to think that.
It is a nice skillet, regardless. Definitely worth the $4. :)

[Dwayne Henson]

Not a recast of a Lodge. Old Lodges have wide pouring lips, were this one has very small lips. Probably the product one of the hundreds of unknown foundries that the US once had. Nice though, I like those older skillets.

[Susan Floyd]

Thanks.
I like the older skillets, too.
My biggest reason for wanting to ID this one is that I might get a free dinner out of it...haha. :)  Looks like I am winning!  As long as it is not an old Blacklock, I win.

[Rick Gilley]

I see a lot of skillets like that in my area, and I have a few I bought over the years. They are great users, and I would still not turn one down for $4.

[Frank Burkhead]

I'm a fanatic for the old gate marked skillets. I have a couple of similar ones, small spouts and all. The X on the bottom is only one of the marks I've seen on pans like this. I have no idea who made them, but for $4 I'd have been smiling all the way home.  ;D

[Lee Tigert]

I believe it to be blacklock

[Dwayne Henson]

Wrong pour spouts for Lodge/Blacklock. Older Lodges and suspected Blacklocks all share the same very large, wide graceful pour spouts, not little bitty spouts like on this skillet. One of the thousands of so far unknown foundry.