How many Cast Iron Pans?

[Bob Logan]

Perry,
I don't have a deep Erie #10. I am listing a smooth bottom block logo deep #10 on Ebay this week. I looked for a long time for one of these and within 3 weeks I found 2 of them so I'm selling one of them.  It always seems to work that way!
 
Did anyone notice that there were about 3 Lodge acorn pans listed on ebay this week? Strange you can go almost a year without seeing one and then all of a sudden.

Bob

[Clark Rader]

Perry, boy that sure does sound like a good place to go and dig for cast iron. that sounds just like the place that Ed (my cast iron buddy) has been talking about, we have made a pack not to tell anybody about it, we are waiting till we get our Income Tax moneys than buy the guy out. If you are interested, you could send me and Ed the best piece of cast iron that you have or a good check. Than I will get back with you to let you know What "the rest of the story" is.  ;D
Marven Clark

[C. Perry Rapier]

Clark, I got a better idea. Why don't we all three go to his house. While I am shooting the breeze with him you and Ed can be out in them barns loading up the semi so we can haul it all off. If you two knew where this place was you'd already been there. Like I said this fellow ain't exactly right. You gotta catch him on a good day. When I was there I had about 50.00 on me. When I tried to go back I had a roll but did not need it.

[Wulfdog]

That story about the guy with all the pans sounds like the legend that was circulation around in Oklahoma when I was younger that some older man and woman had found a treasure trove of Big Chief soda bottles in an abandoned botteling plant somewhere down in Texas.  It was legend for years until they both passed away and their home went up for auction.  Come to find out I was living just a few blocks from the legendary owners.  They had tons and tons of the Big Chief bottles.  Two collectors bought them all and saturated the market with them.  I know that within a year of this the price of them went way down.  I know based on what I've read above that this guy is for real, but I bet in certain circles.  He is part of a legend of some old guy with two barns full of pans.  When the story is told, people probably think like I did about the bottles, "yeah right, whole trove of big chief bottles."  Pretty cool to see something like this come to light even if it does saturate the market a little bit.  Be cool if WAGS could form a museum and buy the guy out and put them on public display.  John

[Thomas_Callaway]

 No covers for Griswold's deep skillets but Wagner's had them on some pans (the Skillet Roasters) and they are very nice pans but hard to find.

Steve

I have the 777 and 778 (#8 and #9) Griswold Deep Skillets and the regular skillet lids fit perfectly. I would think the same would be true of the Erie's, but don't have one to compare. Wagner decided to make thiers different sizes as some of you may remember from the discussions I started on this a while back.

I would like to have a 779 but have never seen one on eBay or elsewhere.

Just missed a 732 the other day. Harrumph! So did somebody else that frequents this board.  ;)

TC

[Steve_Stephens]

 No covers for Griswold's deep skillets

Whoops, when I made that statement I was thinking of the early Griswold deep skillets such as the ERIE's and slant/ERIE's for which there are no Griswold covers.  For the 777-779 deep skillets there are covers but the pans have straighter sides and a smaller top diameter than the earlier deep Griswold skillets so the covers won't fit the earlier pans.  I had a marked Favorite skillet cover like just finished up on ebay this past week or so and it fit my slant/E Griswold deep No.8 skillet perfectly.  I think the Favorite cover was a No.9 but, remember, the earlier Griswold deep skillets flared out more at the top and the Favorite cover was for a regular skillet I assume.

Steve

[Will Person]

I would like to have a 779 but have never seen one on eBay or elsewhere.

T.C.   I found one on Ebay about 2 years ago with a smooth high dome lid.  It had a "buy it now" price with no pictures.   I did buy it and waited to see what it looked like.   It came with a BEAUTIFUL patina.   I was so happy.   If it was bad,  The Buy it now price was $75.00 and I probably could have gotten my money out of the lid alone.    Good luck finding a 779.   One will pop-up for you.   Just give it time.


Will P. [smiley=kos.gif]

[Ed Allspaugh]

If you two knew where this place was you'd already been there.

Sounds like the guy down 71-S near Jamestown, OH. This guy has two barns full, even in the lofts. I was there for hours.

[Clark Rader]

Ed you are saying too much, too much, no more, stop.  :o ::) :-X :-X :-X :-X

[Bob Logan]

Thomas,
I have a #779 for sale on ebay right now. I was like you beginning to think that this pan never existed. I had never seen one but then came across 2 within a month of each other.
 
Here is the link if you are interested

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6134717097&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

Bob

[Harry Riva]

How many people out there are up for chipping in to rent a charter bus to take a bunch of us collectors to THE BARNS at Jamestown Ohio? I've heard so much about the place I just have to get up there before the holidays. I figure about ten of us and we can pick that place to the bone in under 4 hours. I was thinking we go for it week after next.
Harry
PS Just kidding Clark.

[C. Perry Rapier]

If you go to Jamestown, you are going to the wrong town. It is closer to you than that Ed.

[Wulfdog]

Begining to sound like National Treasure on here now.

[Lee Sumner]

Clark, now if you was to come my way on that skillet some I might be inclined to tell you about this guy that I met. I was in Columbus some time ago and went to an antique store looking for cast iron. The owner told me that he did not have much but he gave me a phone number of a guy who had some. The owner told me that the guy was an odd duck, but he did have cast iron. I called the guy, he lives alone, and he gave me directions how to get there. When I got there I did not have a lot of money but had a little. I bought one small piece from him for around 20.00. BUT, what he showed me was awesome. He has two barns full of cast iron. He only took me to one of them because he said it was easier to get around in that one. He had cast iron stacked and stacked and stacked. Skillets, dutch ovens, great big kettles, like you boil water in to kill a hog, and it was sitting and stacked everywhere. You could hardly squeeze throught the place. He would not take me to the other place because he said he had junk in the doorway and he didn't feel like moving it. I asked him if I could come back and he said yes. I have called him three times since and tried to go back but he comes up with some stupid excuse as to why I can't come, every time. Like I said, he is weird. He told me he has been collecting for at least 30 years. It is quite a place and he is quite a guy, you might have better luck with him than me. I do remember that I saw a number 14 Pie Wagner and he asked 125.00 for it. I can't even remember what else he had. I would go through a stack and put it all back and then go through another stack. It was some experience. I don't think he would have let me come that first time if the other guy had not of called him. And he don't care if he sells anything or not. He likes cast iron, he don't clean it up, he just stacks it up.

 Wow..!!! [smiley=yikes.gif] Perry thats quite a story. Did ya ever get back in touch with that Odd Duck ;D just imagine if ya could've gotten into that other barn and saw the rest of the trove. you ever wonder what happen to all of that Iron 4 years later

[blackirondude]

I'd guess around 35. This is low and I know it but I'm sticking with that guess.

I try to keep my iron in the bright light so it doesn't start multiplying. Every now and then a skillet will split off (like an amoeba) and I end up with a surprise. My Favorite #8 did this and produced a Favorite / Miami 7.

Stacking cast iron (as you would expect) causes it to multiply like horny rabbits.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Hello Lee, wow, thats an old thread. I went back to his house at least a couple times, and I called him also. Every time he had some crazy excuse as to why he could not let me see the cast iron again. I have since lost the phone number but I could find his house again, he lives on the right, just past his house across the road is a church. Like I said, he was odd/different. I also see back then that I wanted a deep "ERIE" number 10 skillet. That was four years ago for this thread. I just got that skillet two days ago.  ;)

[Jesse and Kim Dunfee]

I love it when someone starts up these old threads again. I have read alot of the old ones that interested me till my eyes hurt. Still read them. As for skillets My wife started a spread sheet for me just yesterday and I have entered just my Griswolds skillets. 108

[Jeff_Paden]

I'm not sure of the total but its well over 200

[Ann and Calvin Smith]

Last count I have 274 skillets :o

Cal Smith

[Bill Corum]

I counted my skillets and I have 160. I didn't count the toy ones.

Bill