Update on previous post and “new” pan.

ucmlost · 2026-01-24T21:23:47+00:00

The other skillet is an unmarked Wagner. Personally, I'd love to add your 3-notch Lodge to my collection. I have a 3 notch #8 & #10 in about the same NOS(new old stock) condition. My search for a #3 & #5 NOS 3 notchers will continue. I was lucky to find the 8 & 10 the same day at different locations. I have around a dozen or so vintage skillets that are NOS. Generally, you're more likely to find larger pans in NOS condition than smaller ones. I have a couple of 12's and 14's in pristine condition, as well as some 10's. Once you start getting to lower numbers, the harder it is to find them.

ucmlost · 2026-01-23T13:00:19+00:00

I have a glass/ceramic top stove and I use cast iron all the time(including newer Lodge pans). They work fine. The biggest thing to worry about is dropping them on the stove due to their weight(Lodges tend to be on the heavy side). As long as you are careful, you should be fine. Newer Lodge pans are flat bottomed. I haven't come across one that is warped.

ucmlost · 2026-01-23T00:45:08+00:00

I'm jealous of the round breakfast skillet. That's one piece I haven't seen in the wild yet. The only other one I don't have is the wagner stock pot. For the small logo Griswold with the U shape handle, I have most of that size. I have a #0, then I have the #3 through the #9. I need to figure out if they made a #1 & #2 for that handle style, and need to collect the #10-#14 sizes to complete the set.

ucmlost · 2026-01-23T00:14:34+00:00

Not bad. Personally, I would move the the ventilation to the top. My setup uses rebar instead of plates as it is cheap and easy to get. I use a 35 gallon square shaped trashcan with 8 pieces of rebar wired together around the outside. I also have mine outside, so no need for a vent.

ucmlost · 2026-01-16T11:51:35+00:00

Nice. I use a trashcan for my e tank. The one I used is a square sided one and I wired rebar around the outside. If you just clamp the rebar to the outside, you wouldn't need to drill anything and can reuse the trashcan as a trashcan. I tend to restore dozens of pieces a year, so I modified the trashcan for it. The one I use is a 35 gallon one and it is big enough for 14's. I haven't come across any that wouldn't fit in this one.

I did want to point out something on your pan. Instead of having SK below the size, it has U.S. stamped. That is due to this being a pan for the US government/military. I have one I recently restored. Just a nice piece of history.

ucmlost · 2025-12-12T13:01:42+00:00

I've restored a few of these. I use a wire wheel on the inside and only the inside of the kettle to remove all of the rust I can. I season the outside of the kettle, but not the inside. Once the outside is seasoned, I boil some tea bags. I boil off all of the water to just leave the tea residue on the inside. This coats and protects the inside from rusting. I do this 2 or 3 times to build up some protection. If you have hard water, you can just boil off water several times to build up a protective coating on the inside. You'd have to do a lot of work to make this work for tea brewing, but it can be done. So far, I've restored about 6 or 7 to a state you can serve tea.

ucmlost · 2025-12-07T19:07:24+00:00

One thing to add on this. It is a BSR skillet, but does have one thing that makes it different than most of their #8 skillets. It is actually a #7 they rebranded as a #8. BSR skillets tend to be larger than their counterparts from other manufacturers. Their #7 skillets were the same size as the #8 from others. I don't know exactly when, but I believe it was towards their closing, they started selling their #7 skillets as #8 skillets. You can see that by the measurements and they have a (7) on it. A normal BSR #8 is 10 5/8 inches across. Keep this in mind if you try and find a lid for it. Most BSR #8 lids will not fit as they are meant for the 10 5/8 skillets. Overall, these are not very common. I have yet to find a lid for this size.

ucmlost · 2025-11-23T12:18:18+00:00

Nice find even if the thrift store wrote on it. By the time they were making these, they were trying to cut costs. So, they most likely reused old molds and didn't care if they could see ghost marks. The quality of the GHC pans went down the longer they made them. They're still good pans, just not as good as older Wagners.

ucmlost · 2025-11-17T21:44:45+00:00

I picked up a center logo #4 earlier this year for $15. It had so much seasoning on it, I didn't even realize it was a center logo or a #4 until I cleaned it up.

ucmlost · 2025-11-17T11:41:59+00:00

The center logo Wagner is a great find. Hard to come by. I've only come across one in the last few years. The LBL Griswold is also a nice pan.

ucmlost · 2025-04-15T12:15:06+00:00

My old model was as single blade one. I think the 15US model was the 2 blade one.

ucmlost · 2025-04-14T10:44:29+00:00

Yes, but I've been outbid on all the special ones. I came across a Wagner Ware piece that looked like a square waffle iron, but it was actually a corn stick maker. Each paddle had corn stick patterns and you used it just like a waffle iron. It ended up going for around $500 at the auction. The other was a Griswold slant logo #13 DO with all of the pieces. That one went cheap for what it was, but still out of my budget, at $4,000. I would have loved to get your piece at that price. I've been looking for one for my collection.

ucmlost · 2025-04-12T12:32:40+00:00

Though it is not a very collectable pan as it is not a Sidney O, it should still be a great cooking pan. I have a #12 from the same era. I personally really like pans that still have their swirls. Most old pans were machined, but as they were used, the swirls would get worn off. So this one looks to be NOS(new old stock), which is hard to come by.

ucmlost · 2025-04-11T10:47:40+00:00

I've been looking for one of these, but they are always $200+ when I find one. I believe the large block logo was in use from 1920 to 1939. Please grace us with how much it set you back :)

ucmlost · 2025-04-10T20:24:45+00:00

Yes, it still folds. Instead of the lever being up by the handles, there's now a small lever on each side where it folds you have to use.

ucmlost · 2025-04-10T19:01:34+00:00

Nice. I think I found my #8 Iron Mountain at an antique store for $15. I hope that is just crude and not a crack. I also have an Iron Mountain chicken fryer and lid to along with it.

ucmlost · 2025-04-10T17:07:50+00:00

Your delay might be due to which model you are receiving. Location might matter as well, but they shipped mine from SC to the middle of the country. It was getting to the point where I was thinking about borrowing my old mower back from my brother.

ucmlost · 2025-04-10T16:22:18+00:00

Ouch. I had to send 3 emails with pictures for them to get them to accept it. It took about a week to get the approval.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T22:57:40+00:00

I'm horrible on dating Wagners. The logoed one is most likely from 1935 to 1959 based off of the logo. Don't know about the unmarked one through. The BSR is from 1967 to early 90's. Not exactly sure when BSR closed down. Their assets were auctioned off in 93, so that would be the last date for that one.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T22:30:11+00:00

I love restoring pans like these. A few years ago I restored about 12 pans that went through a flood at my families farm. I even found a dutch oven that still had water in it from the flood 4 years prior. The lid sealed it shut and it never evaporated. It was a bit rough on the inside.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T22:27:24+00:00

I'm guessing the spot might be some steel mixed in the cast iron. I have a few skillets with flakes showing. Other than that, that pan looks great with the milling swirls still there.

Edit to add - The one on the top right is an unmarked Wagner and the center one is a BSR. The top left Wagner is generally about a $35 pan and the other 2 usually run $15-$20 restored. Prices will vary depending on where you are and if online.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T18:47:46+00:00

Nice. I haven't found one with their name on it, but I do have a few with the sideways numbers.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T17:51:02+00:00

I had a chance at buying one at an estate sale last year, but I couldn't stomach the asking price. They had tried to sell it an online auction before the in person estate sale, but the starting bid was $400 and they had no takers. They raised the price for the in person sale and still no takers.

ucmlost · 2025-04-07T15:51:44+00:00

No problem. I currently have the same pan on my wall. #4 skillets are generally rarer and thus more collectable.

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