"W S" Foundry?

[ysageev]

Just got this skillet this weekend and I'd love to know more about it.  

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[Roger Barfield]

Yair, I wish I knew.  I believe this is what we were discussing might be old Lodge a while back.

[Will Person]

Lodge was famous for putting raised numbers on the handle.   But we just don't know. :'(




Will

[Steve_Stephens]

One thing I heard was that anyone could request their initials to be put on this makers' skillets.  I don't really buy that but think the letters might be the molders.  If stamped into the fresh mold the letters would come out raised on the skillet.  Also, the letters do not look like they are precisely located which would be consistant with quickly stamping them in the mold.  I don't think the initials are for a foundry name.  Don't we see quite a few different letter combinations?

Steve

[ysageev]

Steve, these letters are LARGE -- much larger than I thought molders placed on skillets.  

Will, Roger -- Lodge had raised letters but they were small.  I do have another lodge with raised letters that are small that I will post photos of.  It may indeed be a lodge. It has the same 8 on the handle.

The iron and casting are extremely fine.  Polished iron, glass smooth. Not like many other lodge skillets I have seen.  The raised 8 on the handle is consistent with many lodges.  I'll post pics of the other skillet today.

[Greg Stahl]

Yair, looks like a nice quality skillet.  I could give it a  home in my new kitchen ;)

[ysageev]

Yair, looks like a nice quality skillet.  I could give it a  home in my new kitchen ;)

Heh, Greg, I love this skillet.  I think it is almost certainly a first-generation lodge. Glad your kitchen is finally remodeled -- for now it will have to do without this skillet, however.   ;)

As promised, here are the photos of the other skillet.  It is identical except for the small raised "U".  Both feature identical handles, Identical #8's on the handle, and identical rim reinforcement, and identical smooth polish.

Barring objections, I think we can conclusively say that if one is a lodge, both are lodge.

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[Steve_Stephens]

Barring objections, I think we can conclusively say that if one is a lodge, both are lodge.

No objections at all but I ask do you really think either skillet is a Lodge and why?

Steve

[ysageev]

Check out the lodge skillets in the red book, especially the one with the large 8 on the handle.  Also, the raised small letter "U" is common for Lodge.

Is there some reason why you doubt this is a lodge, Steve?

[Steve_Stephens]

 Also, the raised small letter "U" is common for Lodge.

Is there some reason why you doubt this is a lodge, Steve?

I am neither convinced one way nor the other.  The pouring lips seem smaller than typical Lodge.  Outside heat rim instead of inset.  The small letter "U" is not the same typestyle/size as Lodge used on many of their known pans.  The raised "8" is similiar.  This skillet differs so much from what we know to be Lodge that trying to compare seems a difficult thing to do.  Other than the raised 8 on the handle there is nothing that resembles the known Lodge skillets, but that doesn't say it isn't.  If a much earlier pan than the typical Lodges it COULD be very different and still be a Lodge.  I would place it in the "I don't know category" without more information.  The red book shows a similiar pan but doesn't come out and say it's a Lodge.

Steve