Help ID Erie Tea Kettle and unk.Cook Pot

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Jed Z.

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Hey y'all.

I've had this cast iron cook pot for a while and just found this old Erie tea kettle.

Antique store fella figured it's old Erie.
I haven't been able to find one just like it online. It's enameled and has a peculiar spout as well as size and style overall. "Erie" swivel lid, no spider, no number.

The cook pot I guess is old Lodge or Erie, no number as well. Attaching photos.

Thanks for letting me in and for chatting about em.
 

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The pot is a bottom piece to a combination cooker. Search that term or "combo cooker" here for more examples. There were multiple makers of them.
 
Hi JedZ.

Is there a small notch on the rim of the pot? The reason that I ask is I had a baking kettle the same shape as yours, but had a small V notch the lid would lock into. But they were also made without the V notch

Doug D. Are you saying this is a part of a combo cooker like Lodge & Griswold made? So there should be a skillet shaped top, maybe?

I am thinking, due to its shape that it is a newer baking kettle as is one used for baking brown bread, etc. New because it does not have a gate mark, but also would have had a lid.

I have the same kettle as seen in the gray Book page 86 Top left, also called a baking kettle. These would be earlier versions of what you have, if I am correct.

See here; https://www.castironcollector.com/f...ket-from-the-sand-box-not-sand-mold-yes.8579/

from 2014, Sadly the photos are missing here. but I will take a look. https://www.castironcollector.com/forum/threads/cast-iron-baking-kettle.716/
 
Lodge and Griswold, to my knowledge, did not make combo cookers. At least not the Johnson or Blankenship styles, which had a deep pot, a shallower pot or deep skillet which fit into the pot, and on some a flat top cover that could also be used as a skillet. Lodge now calls something a combo cooker, previously a "foursome" or "4 in 1", that is more accurately described as a double skillet set.
 
:ROFLMAO: I was thinking that you were referring combo cookers to a double skillet set. Heck if Lodge can change it supposed you can.

That is why I asked, "So there should be a skillet shaped top, maybe?"
 
Thanks, Doug D.
I saw one the first time I looked it up but couldn't find what you're referring to in my recent searches. Who do you reckon is the likely manufacturer and era?
Doug D. said:
Lodge and Griswold, to my knowledge, did not make combo cookers. At least not the Johnson or Blankenship styles, which had a deep pot, a shallower pot or deep skillet which fit into the pot, and on some a flat top cover that could also be used as a skillet. Lodge now calls something a combo cooker, previously a "foursome" or "4 in 1", that is more accurately described as a double skillet set.
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Jeffrey R. said:
Hi JedZ.

Is there a small notch on the rim of the pot? The reason that I ask is I had a baking kettle the same shape as yours, but had a small V notch the lid would lock into. But they were also made without the V notch

Doug D. Are you saying this is a part of a combo cooker like Lodge & Griswold made? So there should be a skillet shaped top, maybe?

I am thinking, due to its shape that it is a newer baking kettle as is one used for baking brown bread, etc. New because it does not have a gate mark, but also would have had a lid.

I have the same kettle as seen in the gray Book page 86 Top left, also called a baking kettle. These would be earlier versions of what you have, if I am correct.

See here; https://www.castironcollector.com/f...ket-from-the-sand-box-not-sand-mold-yes.8579/

from 2014, Sadly the photos are missing here. but I will take a look. https://www.castironcollector.com/forum/threads/cast-iron-baking-kettle.716/
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Thanks Jeffrey R.
I'll go look at it now...no notches I see. Should I fire it, clean it up a bit?
Jeffrey R. said:
Hi JedZ.

Is there a small notch on the rim of the pot? The reason that I ask is I had a baking kettle the same shape as yours, but had a small V notch the lid would lock into. But they were also made without the V notch

Doug D. Are you saying this is a part of a combo cooker like Lodge & Griswold made? So there should be a skillet shaped top, maybe?

I am thinking, due to its shape that it is a newer baking kettle as is one used for baking brown bread, etc. New because it does not have a gate mark, but also would have had a lid.

I have the same kettle as seen in the gray Book page 86 Top left, also called a baking kettle. These would be earlier versions of what you have, if I am correct.

See here; https://www.castironcollector.com/f...ket-from-the-sand-box-not-sand-mold-yes.8579/

from 2014, Sadly the photos are missing here. but I will take a look. https://www.castironcollector.com/forum/threads/cast-iron-baking-kettle.716/
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Doug D. said:
He purchased it at an auction. It, too, is the bottom piece from a combo cooker. The cover is also a part of one version of a combo cooker.

The patent for the John C. Johnson cooker: https://www.google.com/patents/USD91487?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&q&f=false
For the Blankenship cooker: https://www.google.com/patents/US2199687?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Of course. Haha. Does that thick band at the top denote an era, style, or manufacturer?

What ya think of that Erie Tea Kettle. I can't find one just like it. The spout, the size, all seem different from others I can find.
 
My goodness that's gotta be it. I wonder where my wife's dad had gotten it and where the rest is? He passed well before I met her.
 
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