Will This Qualify as a SS Special Skillet?

[Steve_Stephens]

Judy, that was an ebay purchase years ago.  As I said, there are many slightly different styles of handles liike the skillet that Ellis posted.  Look for the small details to tell one maker's pan from another.  I would say the chances are great that your deep 12 skillet and your handle griddle Roger (and Judy-whoops, I meant Michelle, not Judy) are from different makers.  I don't see the details closely Judy but your pan looks like those that come from New England and Rogers deep 12 may or may not be from the same maker as Ellis' skillet although I would think not.  However, look at all the small differences among Griswold's skillets and griddles.  I'm sure that few makers stayed with the same exact pattern and design throughout all of their production.  It's just HARD to tell a whole lot without the pans being marked.

Steve

[junkjunkie]

Steve,  I think you meant Michelle with the griddle. ;) :D  But that's ok, I would love to take credit for that nice find and claim it's mine!   ::) ::)       Judy

[C. Perry Rapier]

Boy Roger that is a nice 12, I can still see the grinding marks in it. When you say its deep Roger, what is deep? Its all relevant.

I went to an auction with Clark Rader and Ed Allspaugh and his wife. The bill of sale said they had a whole bunch, and named them, of deep skillets. We went there and they only had a couple of actual "deep" skillets and they was plain Janes. The rest were ordinary depth skillets, although nice collectible skillets, although by no means deep. If  it ain't three inches it ain't deep as far as I am concerned. I gave the auctioneer a piece of my mind. He said, to him they were deep, and therefore he stood by what was in the bill of sale. That was a bunch of BS.

Roger, might you want to sell that number 6? If you do let me know. And if that 12 is a "deep" skillet and you want to sell it, let me know as well. It would be kind of like 6 of 1 or a half a dozen (12) of the other type deal.  ;D

[Steve_Stephens]

True deep skillets with bottom gate are hard to find.  I guess they just didn't make them.  I have only one, possibly two, deep early skillets.

Steve

[C. Perry Rapier]

True deep skillets with bottom gate are hard to find.  I guess they just didn't make them.  I have only one, possibly two, deep early skillets.

Steve

Steve, I have not seen too many. I have one for sure, maybe two, deep that is.

[Dwayne Henson]

Here is a set of 7,8,9 Gatemarked Skillets, Plain Handled- Probably Mid-West made. Foundry Guys, I talked to say the deep items were the hardest to cast, as the iron would start cooling,and wouldn't cast right. This according, to one gentleman is why some large items have two gatemarks.

[Steve_Stephens]

Dwayne, you have the number dot series from who knows where.  Just coined the number dot thing.  Your pans as very similiar to the one Ellis has but look like from a different foundry.  Or are they just later or earlier than Ellis's?  Hard to pin these things down.  Certainly a deep skillet is not as deep or hard to cast as a regular kettle or flat bottom kettle and they were made in the many thousands back then with one gate.  I agree with the two gates on very large or long items.

Steve

[Camp_Cook]

Dwayne, here is a griddle, I've had for sometime, that is marked a lot your No. 7 Skillet. Same maker?
Phillip

[junkjunkie]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160057980513&rd=1&rd=1      Here's a skillet I just won.  It sort of looks like some of the skillets shown, but I don't think there is a number on the base of the handle.  Any ideas?  I think I'll call this a JJ Junker  ;D ;D.  Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!  I like it's primitive look.      Judy

[Steve_Stephens]

Judy, that pan has larger lips than most of this type.  It's comig from PA but is not the usual type I see from PA.  Another one of those pans that all look so similiar from near the midwest but with those larger lips.  I don't think I have one like it and no information.
Steve

[C. Perry Rapier]

Nice picture Dwayne, yep, at's M.  ;)

[Dwayne Henson]

My wife's favorite skillet; very, very thinly cast. The gentleman whom I bought it from, didn't believe it was cast iron because it was so light.

[JeanM]

My favorite skillet, very very light and smooth and with a jaunty handle.

[Roger Barfield]

Boy Roger that is a nice 12, I can still see the grinding marks in it. When you say its deep Roger, what is deep? Its all relevant.

I went to an auction with Clark Rader and Ed Allspaugh and his wife. The bill of sale said they had a whole bunch, and named them, of deep skillets. We went there and they only had a couple of actual "deep" skillets and they was plain Janes. The rest were ordinary depth skillets, although nice collectible skillets, although by no means deep. If  it ain't three inches it ain't deep as far as I am concerned. I gave the auctioneer a piece of my mind. He said, to him they were deep, and therefore he stood by what was in the bill of sale. That was a bunch of BS.

Roger, might you want to sell that number 6? If you do let me know. And if that 12 is a "deep" skillet and you want to sell it, let me know as well. It would be kind of like 6 of 1 or a half a dozen (12) of the other type deal.  ;D

Perry the #12 is 3 inches deep.  I have a #10 just like it that is 2 1/2 inches deep.  I know what you mean about people calling the normal ones deep.  I've run across that as well.

I'm going to hang on to them for now, I'm trying to put together a set.  They aren't all exactly the same, but the same gate mark style and shape for the most part.  These are truly works of art as far as I'm concerned.  I even buy warped ones for the right price and hang them up in my game room.  

Dwayne, I have a # 7 like yours and that is the skillet I grab first when I'm cooking.  Light weight and smooth as glass.  Great to cook with and admire.  I really like this thread. 8-)

[Sandy Glenn]

And with a single lip even... that's a beauty Jean.  So's your stove.  I'd trade in the other half for that.

[Dwayne Henson]

Jean, what a beautiful skillet! Roger is right this is a good thread. I love looking at what you'all have collected.  This is the most interesting skillet handle I have. A New York cast item.

[C. Perry Rapier]

And with a single lip even... that's a beauty Jean.  So's your stove.  I'd trade in the other half for that.

Jean, I'm with Sandy, that is a nice skillet and stove and I'd trade Terry in for the stove too. Stainless steel, two ovens, stainless steel backsplash, gas grill, yep she's a nice'n.  ;)

This is a good thread, thanks to ever who started. The only think I don't like about this thread is I thought I was gonna skin Roger outa them two pieces, don't reckon I am though.  :'(

At boys bin takin smart pills on me.  ;D

[C. Perry Rapier]

Well, since this is a show your handles night. Here is one I got handy so I took a picture of just now. Clark Rader took a picture of this once and put it on the forum with one of his, but since I took this one I'm showin it again. Its a Victor odorless skillet with a funny handle. The patent date is 1879.

[suziqz]

Nice handle Perry!

[C. Perry Rapier]

Nice handle Perry!

Thanks Suzie, I think somebody said it was called a fillagree handle or something like that.