BS&R LID?

[Mike Shonfield]

The more I study it I wonder if the lid is really a match for the fryer.

There is a little play in the ridge that holds the lid to the pot.  The flaps on the lid are  larger than they need to be to cover the spouts.  Hard to know what the tolerances were.

Hmm, oh well they are both cast iron.  :)

[Tom Penkava]

Mike, could you post another picture of the bottom of that skillet from a slightly different angle, that shows the markings a little better, and with the lid on so it shows if the lid over hangs the skillet walls/spouts.

[Mike Shonfield]

Tom, I have it in the heat bath  :) self clean oven.  I'll post when it comes out and cools.

[Mike Shonfield]

Tom, here is the fryer upside down on the lid.  I'm not sure if you can make out the overlap on the lid. Put oil on the markings to make them stand out.

[Mike Shonfield]

Look how small the pour spouts are yet the lid has larger tabs

[Tom Penkava]

Well, here is my observation/opinion.
All my lids for this type skillet marking, both deep and regular fit the same as your example with the lid ears being larger than the pour spouts. ( or the pour spouts being smaller than the lid ears.  BSR being frugal, I think when the spouts became smaller they just kept on making the same lids. )
The other style marking with just a number and letter have larger pour spouts and the ears and spouts are about equal in size.
I would call your skillet BSR and lid possibly/probably BSR, but I don't know for sure about the handle on the lid.  That is the puzzle, the dimple pattern is correct for the markings on the bottom of the skillet.  Need more documation to be absolute.

[Rick Gilley]

I believe its BSR...but not sure it fits the bottom and I don't think its AB&I....here are some of my AB&I pictures for comparision

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[Mike Shonfield]

Thanks fellows, I'm going to call it a BS&R set.

Top down my lid knob looks similar to AB&I but on a side to angle it does not.

The lid movement on the pan is not much and probably within tolerance.

I'm going to accept Tom's comments on the lid overlap.

The only doubt left is too often on this forum pans are identified as BS&R.  Were there really that many BS&R pans made without the name being on them?

[Dwayne Henson]

I'm with Tom as the Skillet is BS&R, and the lid is a BS&R possible.

 Questions I have.
Why if you have a pattern with a handle on it, would you remove all traces of that handle, and go to a costly button handle? I am calling it costly due to having to purchase or additionally; cast a button handle, buy the bolt that holds it on, and then pay for an employee to manually apply it. That extra work/cost/time, makes me wonder why? Especially when you have DESI (automatic molding machines) patterns with a handle on them already. DESI's can turn out a mold every 15 seconds with handles already in place. Why slow down the production, having an employee sitting there screwing handles on lids as fast as he can, that is after they cool off? The other question I have is the lack of markings on the inside of the lid. The BS&R lids I have are marked with the size, either under the handle or on the underside of the lid. This style of lid dimples usually have the same markings as your skillet does on the underside.  

Could BS&R have made this lid, certainly, can we prove it, no. Maybe a catalog will show up showing that type of lid, but until it does...

[Jeff Parsons]

The BSR dimple pattern, in lids with numbers that match the bottoms, seems to be more random. Your lid has a geometric pattern. Just an observation...