It's griswold, but not cast iron...

[awdye]

Found this in Boise Idaho for $50 a few weeks ago.  It appears to be a Griswold commercial kitchen waffle iron, stainless and it looks like cast aluminum waffle plates.  Works fine, I just need to clean it up.  It has removable drip plates around the irons for batter spills.

 The tag says:

Griswold (in the cross)
"The Griswold Manufacturing Company, Erie, PA, U.S.A." in a semi circle underneath the cross
"Machine # 83498"
"Catalog # 650-8-E"
110 Volts AC, 1500 Watts

I'll attach a few pictures.  Can anyone fill me in on dates of manufacture, how common, value, etc...?  I'm planning on keeping it for when we have guests stay over and I need to turn out a lot of waffles.

[awdye]

the plate off the front:

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with waffle plates open:

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the instruction plate on the left end:

[Ed Allspaugh]

Nice W/I.  Theres a page in the L-W 2002-2003 Gris price guide that shows these. The page is a copy from a 1937 restaurant equipment catalog.  Griswold electric semi-automatic waffle bakers. Three sizes one,two and three units. Cast aluminum pans with floating hinge and of special design to decrease overflow of batter. Automatic control maintains the proper temp at all times. automatically turns off when baking temp is reached and auto on when temp is cooler than baking temp. Value in this book $90-125.  I think there was one at a WAGS convention, but I've not seen one in my travels. I did see this hot plate but the guy wanted $400.