Will This Qualify as a SS Special Skillet?

[Steve_Stephens]

This is what I call the filligre handle and it may be the most common of the really nice skillets.  Is it really a filligre style?  I'm not sure how I came up with the name filligre years ago.  Got my first pan with this handle from a CA gold country antiques shop.  The guy had opened an old mine he remembered as a kid and found the pan along with a very nice ERIE handled saucepot.  These skillets were made in sizes 6-10 and maybe 11.  12??  From an unknown foundry that must have been in NY state since so many of these come from there.

Steve

[C. Perry Rapier]

Ahhh, thank you Steve, does the kind of handle I posted a have a particular name that you know of?

[Steve_Stephens]

Take a look at the patent data (attached) Perry and make up your own name.  I don't have a name for it.  Surprisingly enough there are other style of handles with the same patent date and one I have has J. Read, Boston on the handle and he's the patent holder.  Note sure if he made the pan or not but the handle on that pan does NOT follow the patent in that it is not rounded on the underside which I think was the main feature (for comfort) of his patent.  
Steve

[Steve_Stephens]

Top of J. M. Read skillet handle-

[Steve_Stephens]

Bottom of Read skillet handle-

[Charles_A._Burger]

Steve

Just curious, what is the oldest skillet you possess and do you still use it?

Chuck

[Steve_Stephens]

Real hard to say Chuck.  The pan in Reply 11 and 12 I often think of as my oldest and a guess would be c.1840 but it might be several decades later, too.  If that isn't the oldest I have a few others that could be as old as 1840ish.  Cookstoves came into being in the 1830s but were any skillets made especially for the new fangled cookstoves or did they adapt hearth skillets?  I still use that pan pictured as well as any of my pans regardless of age.  I use mostly the ones that seem to fit my hand well and/or I enjoy best using for whatever reason.  Among the newest pans I use is my No.5 Griswold Victor skillet.

Steve