Newfoundland, Canada made Cast Iron. Aka: NAFCO

[Tracie Boland]

Hi there,
  I'm new to this site and in my welcome message I mentioned some of the cast iron I collect and some of it is NAFCO, made right here in Newfoundland, Canada.  It was located in the capital city, St. John's.  The NAFCO foundry was known for pot belly wood stoves, iron fencing, and machinery.  THere isn't much history or info online.  However, it did make cookware at one point.  Ive been told the foundry closed down in the 1950's.
  I have attached photos of a couple of my pieces.  It is very hard to find, even here.  I have many pots with lids of multiple sizes as well as one lonely size 10 skillet, which I love and use every day.  It was rusted and cruddy when I found it, pushed under a hutch on a dirty concrete floor of an old church turned antique store in a place called Portugal Cove.  I cleaned it up and gave it much needed love and now we use it every day.  I hope to find more in the future.  Has anyone here ever heard of NAFCO, or have any in their collections?

  The files are too big to post here, so I have put a link to view it in Dropbox.  I hope this isn't inconvenient.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccox8nwgks9hbvg/2016-06-03%2018.14.45.jpg?dl=0

Regards,
Tracie

[Tommy Harris]

Look like some  nice pieces.   I have been having luck with photobucket for my pics.

[Cheryl Watson]

The lil problem that occurs with Web Server based photos is that once they disappear off that server, the threads and posts here become ... well.. useless.

Hopefully the next Forum Upgrade will help a bit, but with so many different devices out there, it is challenging.

Some assistance can be found here:
http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1383802487
:) :)

[Roger Barfield]

Thank you for the photo.  I've never seen those before.  I shrunk the pic down a little so we could see it here.    Thanks again for posting it. 

[Jim Fuchs]

Thank you for posting. A new one for me....we love pictures! :)

[Dwayne Henson]

Those are cool items!

[Valerie Johnson]

The files are too big to post here, so I have put a link to view it in Dropbox.  I hope this isn't inconvenient.

When I have photos that are too large to post I simply change the size of the photo,  Changing the size will vary depending on what program you use on your computer but it should go something like this.
Choose photo, right click select edit, on my program I choose attributes and simply change the attributes(make smaller), You may have to experiment with a few pics to figure out which works best for you but it really is not that difficult