Stopped into one of the local antique malls today, it's pretty rare to get anything cast iron, let alone what you're on the hunt for.
2 dealers in particular "clean", more like attempt to clean their cast iron. I should have taken pics but I was too upset. 3 new cast iron pots, gate marked and every one of them polished to a high shine and the bugger of it is they didn't even get the old seasoning off. I've spoken to one of them in the past, told him I want "as is" but...
Skillets, pots, griddles no matter. Pieces of history destroyed.
2 dealers in particular "clean", more like attempt to clean their cast iron. I should have taken pics but I was too upset. 3 new cast iron pots, gate marked and every one of them polished to a high shine and the bugger of it is they didn't even get the old seasoning off. I've spoken to one of them in the past, told him I want "as is" but...
Skillets, pots, griddles no matter. Pieces of history destroyed.