No.18 Double Handled Skillet

[Steve_Stephens]

Roger, I won't try putting my mouth over my foot on this one.   Could these diamond pans be from CHF?  The reason I ask is that Favorite, to my knowledge, never cataloged  a hotel skillet.  I'd have an easier time deciding for myself if these pans are Favorites if I could see a bunch of them alongside simiar Favorite pans.

Steve

[Mark Ritter]

I just wish I could get some kind of documention on this. Believe me, I am not trying to prove anyone wrong but I just want to get the facts correct. There is alot of this that seems to be in a gray area and doesn't quite add up. Like inside the diamond marks are sometimes letters instead of numbers. the handles are somewhat different and also the diamond itself seems larger and more clear. I just don't know if this is a common variations or not?

[Mark Ritter]

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Last one , Favorite #14

[Jenny Schwartz]

I think we have a CHF pan in that light green porcelain color with a cast iron bottom

[Steve_Stephens]

Mark, that's an amazing variation in the details of the pans.  Favorite also had a lot of variations but I see some details that don't look to me like Favorite.  But, then again, I'm not an expert on Favorite.  I do say that there are a lot of grey areas to be figured out.

Steve

[maloney108]

These diamond skillets have more handle variations than you can shake a stick at.  I think this is why it's so hard to place them (and why this hobby is so much fun).  I have two of them and they both have different handles than the ones Mark showed.  The 9A has a shorter ribbed handle and the 5 has a dash right near ewhere the handle meets the side.

Here's the 9A:

[maloney108]

Here's the 5:

P.S. At least one of Mark's pans has those dots that were the only markings on those heavy hammered skillets that were ascribed to Lodge in another post - curious!

[Mark Ritter]

Thanks Jim. Now I know a little more of what I am looking for, I think? I haven't seen a #9 and it is stange but the handle in yours matches the handle on my Puritan (Favorite, no p/n) #10. Also your #8 is different than the one I posted and I have two other ones marked the same. I thought that would make that style a sure thing but I guess not. This is always interesting at least to me anyway and thanks for the information and pictures.

[rustygold]

Roger, I asked my father to purchase the #18 as I have been back in school and did not have the funds to buy it. It is not mine, it is his. I told him it was a fair buy and that he could make a little money on it on ebay if he listed it the first week of December. I think that is what he plans to do. I can not afford any pricey pieces of C.I. right now. I did pick up a few more affordable pieces at the flea market Mark attended. But the nice stuff is all out of my price range right now.

[maloney108]

With all these different handle styles, is it reasonable to think that maybe this was a store brand (like Woolworth's or similar) and they jobbed out the work to a variety of foundries with the diamond logo being the only required marking?  That's the only explaination I can come up with.

Does anybody know someone who bought one of these "new" from a store?  Maybe that will lead us in a direction to identify this mark.

All this detective stuff is a lot of fun!

[Steve_Stephens]

That's sure possible Jim.  Sears did the same thing in contracting with Griswold, Favorite, Wagner and maybe others to make their cookware.  Note that the Griswold Puritan and Merit skillets have unusual handles.

Has anyone compared very closely the skillet bowl details, profiles, and size with marked Favorite and CHF skillets?  If the bowl sizes are different I would see a good possibility that the skillets were made by someone other than Favorite or CHF and may have been copied from them.  When I look at all the different handles and skillet bottoms/heat rims I don't really see "Favorite" although it could be.

Steve