Any ideas on ID for this gatemarked pan with a hollow handle on top?
Posted Mar 8, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC
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does it have two pour spouts or only one? also it has two gate marks, so probably a copy of a gatemarked pan, using a bottom gated casting.
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It has one pour spout, sorry couldn't get the crop right on the picture. I wondered about that second offset gate mark, so you're saying they used a gatemarked pan as a mold and created this mystery pan?
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yes, they had a gatemarked pan and used it as a pattern to make a sand mold and create another nearly identical pan.. the original gate mark showing up in the sand mold and the new gatemark over the top of it... single spouts of this style probably date to 1880's or maybe a little before... so the copy could be about the same age... patterns were expensive, this was very common in small foundries in the late 1800's.
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Very interesting info, thank you!
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I have the same one. No clue who made it.
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Looks like a classic southern mystery skillet to me.
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Is it abnormally light for a CI pan, might be a really old one like early 1900 or late 1800.
Its lighter than my griswold of similar size for sure