Post 67 BS&R ? Update Identified post 1967 BS&R camp oven

[Dale Oaks]

Is this a later Birmingham camp oven?

[Dale Oaks]

Lid

[Dale Oaks]

Lid pic 2

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Bottom of oven

[Cheryl Watson]

Yes it is. :)

[Dale Oaks]

Thank you Cheryl. This piece actually came from up your way.  Around Hanover Pa. A friend picked it up for me when I mentioned that I needed a couple of camp ovens. These are what got me started on cast actually.

[Cheryl Watson]

In spite of common thinking out there... us Northerners see quite a bit of ASW/BSR up here!  :) :) 

Heck my very first Iron Hunting adventure as a newbie... I came home with 2 BSR skillets, 2 Wagners, 2 Lodge's, and zero Griswolds.

Boy was I disappointed when I found out what they were!, because at the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was buying, except that it was "Cast Iron"!   :D


Welcome to our Forum Dale!  Hope you are finding some interesting things to read here!   :) :)

[Dale Oaks]

Thank you kindly, all my cast is user so I don't guess I need the "grails" i would prob be worried to use them to be honest.
Yes I am find quite a bit of interesting reading.

Seems to me it would be helpful if the name of a "help my identify this object thread could be edited to include the proposed identity of the item after ID'd but I can't gripe has been very helpful already.

[Cheryl Watson]

Dale, you have the ability to modify your post for 24 hours, by clicking on MODIFY button in upper right hand side of original post.

So you can change your subject line if within 24 hours of posting  ;) ;)

I occasionally, if I find the time, go thru posts to update subject lines.  But time is a short commodity right now.. :)

Helpful hint:  When searching our forum, always use the Search TAB.... next to the help tab.  The quick search box to right only searches 30 days of posts, which is not much.  :)

[Dwayne Henson]

Dale, Camp Ovens are what got me interested  in cast iron.  Those BS&R are good solid users. Nice heavy and deep, deeper than the typical Lodge. Yours was cast after BS&R  had began using Disa-matic molding machones, so after 1966. That is when the tab handled lid came out. BS&R  COs have a slight taper to them, that is continued through the lid flare. Their lids have a retaining ring that fits into the oven. The lids have the size raised and then IN,  like 10IN and on the bottoms of the newer ones they have the size incised on the bottom of the oven like the incised number 10. The older ovens or spiders will be marked with raised size and IN, like the lids. Nice find.