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#6 Covers 1

#6 Covers 2

#6 Covers 3

#6 Covers 4

#6 Covers 5

No.6 cover photos from left to right:

Top views of c.1930¹s smooth top skillet covers. "Button logo" cover on left was earlier of the two covers. Note that the outer circle of the TM is missing. Typical of most button logo covers except for the Nos.5 and ? No. 5 and smaller covers have much smaller "logo". Made sizes 3-10.

Undersides of smooth top and button logo covers are the same.

Top view of low dome writing cover and high dome writing cover. The low dome cover is the earlier one dating to the middle 1920¹s while the high dome version is closer to c.1930. Low writing covers made sizes 3 and 5-14 while high dome were made 6-10.

Side view of low and high dome writing covers. Handles on covers smaller than No.6 were much smaller.

Undersides of high and low dome writing covers. Note two patent dates. Some low dome covers have only the 1925 date and are the earlier ones than the double date covers.

#8 Alum. Covers 1A

#8 Alum. Covers 1B

#8 Alum. Covers 2A

#8 Alum. Covers 2B

#8 Alum. Covers 3A

#8 Alum. Covers 3B

Three different covers with the same pattern number p/n A208C.

Aluminum skillet covers

1A. Top view of earliest skillet cover with "applied" handle. Actually, handle was cast with the cover but it looks like it was added after the cover was cast.

1B. Bottom view of earliest skillet cover marked PATENT APPL¹D FOR. This cover is identical to Griswold¹s first iron cover except that it measures 3/16" less in diameter than the iron cover. To make the aluminum cover fit properly it has some added metal on the outside of the lip extending down inside the skillet. This extra metal can be seen at the 12 and 6 o¹clock position if you look carefully. There are indications that an iron cover may have been used as a pattern for the aluminum cover with the iron pattern number filled in and re-engraved with the aluminum p/n.

2A & B. C. 1930 aluminum covers patterned after the high dome writing iron covers but without the writing on the top surface. "SELF BASTING SKILLET COVER" does not appear on the insides of the iron covers.

3A & B. C. later 30¹s partially hammered button logo cover. Not made in iron. The patent numbers on the inside of the cover are the 1920 and 1925 patents of the earlier iron and aluminum covers. Note there is no trademark on the cover¹s underside.


Wagner bacon or breakfast skillet, catalog 1103. Less common than the similar bacon and egg breakfast skillet with the same one-hole handle. Both pans had a bacon press made to fit which is marked with the same catalog number as the pan. Bacon presses were probably not made for the later, and much more common, bacon and egg skillet with the handle that has a long, triangular cutout.


Griswold misspelled on this cover. Spelled correctly on the pot.

#9 DO w/legs 1	#9 DO w/legs 2	#9 DO w/legs 3	#9 DO w/legs 4
Slant #9 w/ bail. Believed to be circa late teens early 20's. Inside is extra finished. These weren't called Chuck Wagons till after Wagner took over, so proper terminology is Dutch Oven with legs.


Alcohol well and grill that converts a #10 chuck wagon into a grill

Iron Mountain Handles 1	Iron Mountain Handles 2
Tear drop handle of the Iron Mountain #5 compared to a #14 Iron Mountain. The #5 is the only tear drop hole in the handles of this series.

Wagner Ware Vienna Roll Pan 1	Wagner Ware Vienna Roll Pan 2	Wagner Ware Vienna Roll Pan 3	Wagner Ware Vienna Roll Pan 4	Wagner Ware Vienna Roll Pan 5
WAGNER WARE VIENNA ROLL PAN No. 1331


An aluminum Griswold skillet p/n A888 marked "SPECIAL" with a wood handle but not known what is "SPECIAL" about the skillet compared with other Griswold aluminum skillets.

Odd DO lid 1

This cover has the small TM and may date to c. 1940's or early 50's. Likely a redesign that "didn't fly". Uncommon.

Made in nickel plated and bronze(?) plated finishes; possibly others. The handle is "upside down" compared with a regular skillet and the inside or back side of the "skillet" has cast in bosses to attach the clock. Rare.

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