Tite Top Baster with casting flaws and ghost mark

BriceV

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After cleaning this piece up I noticed that the bottom has a few very unusual circular dimples and even a unique albeit very faint dutch oven ghost mark?? any thoughts on. This really cool
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This is a piece that illustrates that Griswold initially used the term "Dutch Oven" before "Tite-Top Baster", but then at some point returned to DO, which is how later TM pieces are seen marked. What those marks are is uncertain. Not having encountered them before, I would tend to think they are an artifact of the casting or finishing process of this one particular pot. The pot would have been clamped to a machine that spun it in order to polish grind the inside. Perhaps it wasn't properly secured, or?
 
As for the "dimples", to my eye, it looks sort of like someone dropped a basting lid pattern on the pattern for the oven (more than once), leaving indentations of the basting knobs in the oven pattern.

Anyone think that's possible? Likely?
 
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