Foundry Database - The Cast Iron Collector: Information for The …
Originally begun and compiled by Steve Stephens, this listing-- a more comprehensive database of antique and vintage cast iron hollow ware producers and sources-- may be of help with many of those more obscure pieces. Steve's annotations are included, and may be viewed by hovering your mouse pointer over the notepad icon.
Cast Iron Cookware Collecting Topics
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for the Vintage Cookware Enthusiast. Learn how to identify, clean, restore, season and use collectible antique cast iron cookware.
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for The Vintage Cookware …
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for the Vintage Cookware Enthusiast. Information on vintage cast iron cookware production, manufacturers, foundries, patents, trademarks and markings, specialty ware, unmarked ware, reproductions, and more! Learn how to identify, clean, restore, season and use collectible antique and modern cast iron cookware.
Collecting Vintage Cast Iron Cookware
So highly valued in centuries past, cast iron ware was handed down from generation to generation, often being itemized in wills. "Vintage" cast iron cookware from the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries enjoyed a higher standard of material and workmanship than nearly all such products made anywhere else in the last 50 years.
Numbers & Letters - The Cast Iron Collector: Information for The ...
Even after gas-fired ranges-- and, eventually, electric stoves-- became ubiquitous, cast iron cookware continued to be manufactured in the sizes and with the designations originally established for its use on wood-burning stoves. A 1924 Wagner Manufacturing Co. catalog gives these as the bottom diameters of their regular cast iron skillets:
Unmarked Cast Iron Cookware Identification - The Cast Iron …
Part of the allure of vintage cast iron cookware, besides the fineness of the castings, are the unique trademarks and detail work the foundries of the past cast into each piece they produced. Pattern makers were both skilled craftsmen and artists, in some cases even carving small, unique figures ("maker's marks") into their work to identify ...
Birmingham Stove & Range Co. - The Cast Iron ... - Cast Iron …
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for the Vintage Cookware Enthusiast. Learn how to identify, clean, restore, season and use collectible antique cast iron cookware.
Canadian Makers - The Cast Iron Collector: Information for The …
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for the Vintage Cookware Enthusiast. Learn how to identify, clean, restore, season and use collectible antique cast iron cookware.
Foster Stove Company - The Cast Iron Collector: Information for …
1899 - Marting purchases Aetna Furnace and creates Marting Iron & Steel Co. 1912 - Marting Iron and Steel Co., Ironton Iron Co., and Lawrence Iron Co., merge under the name of the Marting Iron and Steel Co. 1914 - H.A.Marting re-elected president of …
Notable U.S. Hollow Ware Manufacturers - Cast Iron Collector
The Cast Iron Collector: Information for the Vintage Cookware Enthusiast. Learn how to identify, clean, restore, season and use collectible antique cast iron cookware.