Hello Everyone
My name is John S. and I am a new to your forum now for about 2 weeks or so and what a great site!!! Thank You for what you do and what you have done.
I have a fue pieces of cast iron skillets and a chicken fryer a D.O. A 14" unmarked Wagner that belonged to my Mother (My Most special piece)
Last Saturday after I finished my Honey Due list for the wife I stopped down to a antique mall that I have bought two skillets at before and outside in the parking lot was an old man set up with a plank across some concrete bricks and he was setting on the tailgate of an old chevy pickup truck and on the plank was several cast iron skillets so I walk over and visit with him and look at the skillets he had setting on the plank.Some he wanted $4.00 and some $5.00 for there were six of them. I ask him how much if I took them all? He answered $20.00 for the lot Son and I said sure why not. Tthat is all the cash I had on me at the time.
The lot consisted of a 2qt pot with a long handle and a really big eye in the handle which is 6" long, flat bottom with the only marks saying 2qt on the handle.one #3 wagner ware skillet,#5 red mountain skillet,#5 Lodge 3 notch skillet,#5 Voltreth with heat ring, and one 10" skillet that I have no idea as to that it is as there is so much crud one cannot tell and an 10 1/2 " unmarked wagner All skillets set flat on my cory tile floor. Yup $20 bucks.
I also mentioned to the old fella that I was looking for a larger skillet and he said I have one at home in my building a #12 I think he says and I ask him how much and he says well it's perty old and I'd like 35 dollars for it so I says I'd like to see it and he gave me his phone number and says call me Monday some time so I say ok I will.
Called him this morning and he says come on over around 11am and I'll have it dug out for you.
When I get there he was setting outside of his place waiting for me. Go inside and he says there it is over there on that chair, I pick it up and I'm here to tell you that skillet looked Good not cleaned up but with a nice sheen that was dusty that had been cooked on and a nice seasoning from a lot of cooking. I turn the skillet over and it says Griswold in the middle of the skillet and at 12oclock it has No.12 just like on the top of the handle of the pan and below the logo (which is 1 7/8 " ) and down close to the bottom of the skillet it is marked 719 with a B below the number. He said I'm an old man and I have 9 sheds full of antiques and have been acquiring this stuff now for 60 years and I need to get rid of it. He said he had around 150 cast iron pots and pan at least Come on back and I'll show you he says. Well he sure had that many some hanging from the rafters and some stacked on shelves, I need to go back when I learn some more about what the heck I'm looking for because at this point I'm just overwhelmed at what I was looking at. Anyway I have the Griswold 12" skillet setting on the kitchen table as we speak and Yes It sets Flat with no cracks or chips or damage. I was going to spend that $35 dollars by joining here but I blue it on the skillet (Sorry) I'm retired so don't make the big bucks anymore but I will be joining soon Maybe I'll just misplace this skillet so the Warden (keeper of my wallet) don't spot it just yet and see ifin she will spot me $35 so I can join sooner. Have a great day I sure am as I think I did OK on them pans. John S.
P.S.
I'll learn how to post some pictures when I join from you folks OK so I can show ya the goods.The Warden don't like me using her fancy digital camera I bought her because last time I used it to take some pictures of some fish I caught I must have got some fish slime on it and didn't get it wiped off good enough. Women can be sorta picky at times.
