I found a couple of spider skillets today with the label J D Weed & co. The store had them labeled as Savannah, GA. That leads me to believe that either (a) this is the same company as Weed and Cornwell (maybe under an offshoot brand where Weed "went solo"), or (b) that the shop owner Googled J D Weed & co, found Weed and Cornwell, and guessed that it must be the same Weed. I'm kind of leaning towards (a), because the location of the store is only a few hours from Savannah. On the other hand, the tag labeled it as being from the 1950s, which is not when Weed and Cornwell operated (but of course that may have been a typo of "1850s").
Has anyone ever seen the J D Weed & Co mark before, or know the history of the Weed and Cornwell foundry well enough to tell me about these pieces?
I included pictures of both skillets. One had the mark on the bottom and the other didn't, but they clearly are from the same source by their design.
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I've looked into this a little further and found some J D Weed & Co invoices on eBay being sold as ephemera. They are dated 1927 and have in the letterhead "1816 J D Weed & Co Wholesale Hardware, farm implements, mill supplies Savannah, GA".
I also found an old eBay auction of a 10 gallon cauldron with J D Weed & Co. The about text included,
It looked quite like the cauldrons I've seen from Weed & Cornwell so maybe the skillets and cauldron were from before the business took on Cornwell as a partner?
Has anyone ever seen the J D Weed & Co mark before, or know the history of the Weed and Cornwell foundry well enough to tell me about these pieces?
I included pictures of both skillets. One had the mark on the bottom and the other didn't, but they clearly are from the same source by their design.
---------- Post added at 08:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:58 PM ----------
I've looked into this a little further and found some J D Weed & Co invoices on eBay being sold as ephemera. They are dated 1927 and have in the letterhead "1816 J D Weed & Co Wholesale Hardware, farm implements, mill supplies Savannah, GA".
I also found an old eBay auction of a 10 gallon cauldron with J D Weed & Co. The about text included,
this company started in 1816 there has been 5 generations in the same location in Savannah Georgia. I spoke to the current owner and he said his Great-grand Father had these Kettles made with there Company name on them in the mid 1870's to the early 1880's
It looked quite like the cauldrons I've seen from Weed & Cornwell so maybe the skillets and cauldron were from before the business took on Cornwell as a partner?
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