I kind of knew what I had when I bought it, despite the layers of crud... so I took before and during different stages of restore and after pics and put them together in this imgur album. mainly to post on the reddit castiron sub where we talk about restoring iron the right way, lye and etanks and steel wool etc. anyway it kind of when viral on imgur there for a few days with 70,000 views and a few thousand upvotes. It is a pretty dramatic transformation.
https://imgur.com/gallery/VVR1qA7
https://imgur.com/gallery/VVR1qA7