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Cleaned up an old one tonight, it says Wagner wear Sidney, and 0

On the handle there is a 3. It is small, 2 maybe 3 eggs max do cooking size.
My grandparents got it as a wedding gift, gramps would have been 100 this year.

I have another one cooking 75 years of stuff off, but haven't found markings yet. It's probably a 14 or so inch.

It was kinda cool to see Wagner come out of all the crusty stuff.

Need some help with the bigger one, it ma say no. 57 in the casting... and I believe 10 3/8...
Does this sound familiar to anyone?

http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl

you can probably find your answer here

Congrats on the iron, bubba.

That's some great cast iron, congrats and USE IT. That's all I use now!

I'm with Robster. It's darn near all I use anymore on the stovetop.

These are the kind of results you get from ~ 100 yo cast iron. Mine happen to be Griswold. Wagners work the same. Here's what you're fixin to get yourself into once you get the addiction rolling.

you are doing well with the cast iron Greg.

Unlike a lot of things in life, it does what it's supposed to.

Yes it does and makes a great lead cauldron for casting mass quantities of bullets as well !
Great looking grub Greg !

I don't think I'd melt lead, and cook with the same pan.

Apparently you don't cast...No way they can be used to cook with afterwards..

Yes, I do cast, I would think it would obvious the lead would ruin the pan for food. We seem to be on the same page. Happy casting, and cooking to you, using different pots.

I have a touch of the hungrys and those plates of some wonderful food, especially the scallops and shrimp did not help!

So good looking I can almost taste them.

No wonder Pavlov's training worked

This one is what I use most. A #9. Joke with friends is it's turning into "my bowl".

Cleaned, re-oiled and ready for prime time.







Woody, that's really interesting that old cast iron can stand up to the punishment from casting!

https://d3axvdqkyu09xk.cloudfront.net/attachments/img_20150816_150941924-jpg.38644/

An old cast iron skillet is what I used to clean up this 260lds of lead.

That's a nice haul of lead!

Roughly 1/4 of a single door from an X-ray lab. New door weighed 1,000lbs. it was split 4 ways.

Awesome find.

great looking meals local dirt!!!

I even got my kids into it. My daughter is going to be a junior in college and s moving into an apartment. She wants to take one of the pans to school with her. I just reseasoned it and it's packed to go!!! gotta encourage the youth!!