Yesterday's Finds, and a Couple Questions

JeffreyL

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First off let me say it pays to have a good friend who watches out for CI for me and has a good eye. This is what $15 dollars looks like to a lazy auctioneer. $10 for the glassware pile, and $5 for the copper boiler pile, the last pic shows what I got out of the piles.
https://imgur.com/a/i4821

I believe I have the griddle ID'd as a Lodge Shallow long pan #8 from page 231 in RB. Am I correct on this? All measurements seem to match up and picture appears to as well. I'm surprised by book price of only $10-15 but I got it for $5. What were these used for? Deeper than a regular griddle but not deep enough to fry fish? And was it made to fit on the sportsman grill maybe?
https://imgur.com/a/HTcAG

Next up is the round bailed griddle. It's a #16 slant Erie griswold. I can't believe I got this for $10. And it's flat and doesn't appear to be pitted. I can't seem to find this particular version in either the RB or BB though, I did find one on eBay under sold listings and it looks like it went for $350, is this accurate? Also how were these used? Seems big for stove top, and if hung over a fire it would be tippy, maybe just set on a wood fire stove? I'm also curious on why the Erie is not in quotes like I see a lot of other ones have?
https://imgur.com/a/mCkVW

And last but not least, apparently it was a Slant Erie griswold day for me. While my buddy was buying the other two at auction for me, I was out hunting. When a shop owner seen me looking at cast, she pulled this out of the back room and offered it to me, I fondled it for a second and realized it's stone flat and in great shape and immediately started bargaining, got it down to $85. Are #11 skillets more rare? I was surprised to see the RB and BB list it at $150-$200. Also curious on the no quotes on Erie.
https://imgur.com/a/VbQZo

All in all I think I had a good day for a $100 bill!
 
Thanks Todd, I was pretty excited too. Any idea on the missing quotes around the word ERIE, or what the Lodge shallow long pan was used for?
 
I don't think the Slant/Erie series had quotes around the 'erie'... I have an 8 and a 4 Slant/erie and neither of them have quotes.

I think I read somewhere (probably here on CIC) that the long shallow pans were used for multiple things... heating multiple sad irons at the same time (so as one cools off you could grab another and keep ironing...) as well as any other skillet/griddle type things.

I think both of those will clean up nicely... post pics!
 
D_Madden

Thanks for the info, and i definately will, running them through the tanks now.

I searched the ebay sold listings, and it seems like slant erie 11 skillet ranges from 120-200 and the 16 griddle range from 230-300. i just dont know how i would ever use the 16 griddle, that thing is huge!
 
I have also been curious about the quotation marks. I have 3 Griswold Slants, of which the #7 has quotations around "ERIE" and the #8 and #10 do not. I just figured it depended on who made the mold.
 
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