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I'm guessing the label and the skillet just recently met. Strong smell, good pass.
Hilditch
Makes me wonder how many of my unmarked Wagners are really Griswolds!
:wink::wink::wink:
Makes me wonder how many of my unmarked Wagners are really Griswolds!
:wink::wink::wink:
Those look like a new vintage that the one I saw.
I didn't use those words, but I think all we're saying is that it is a Wagner, not a true Griswold. Probably late 50's?Hi, Dan and CJ. Do you mean by "new vintage" old but unused? That is what the pan that started this thread looked like to me. In which case, it may really be collectible for the label, if not the skillet's provenance. Just asking...:
I say that the term "vintage" requires a year or a period. Regarding your wine example... which vintage are you referring to? 1965 or 1966? The seasons were quite different."Vintage" by itself is a winemaking term denoting in what year the grapes that made the wine were harvested. It has also come to be used to describe objects of a time period considered to be the apex of their production quality, e.g. "vintage" electric guitars. We apply it in similar fashion to name brand cast iron cookware generally produced before 1957.
vin·tage (vĭn′tĭj)
n.
1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
4.
a. The harvesting of a grape crop.
b. The initial stages of winemaking.
5. Informal
a. A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
b. A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
c. Length of existence; age.
adj.
1. Of or relating to a vintage.
2. Characterized by excellence, maturity, and enduring appeal; classic.
3. Old or outmoded.
4.
a. Of the best: played songs that were vintage Cole Porter.
b. Of the most distinctive: "Fatalism has coexisted with vintage American overconfidence" (Thomas Oliphant).