Unfinished Gate marked pan

I just found this pan yesterday. I love gatemarked pieces, but I have never found obne like this before. It seems to be just as it was after the casting...no finishing work on it. The edges are all rough with the remnants of the casting that would normally be removed as part of the finishing process.

It is grey , which seems to be some kind of coating. I don't know if that is original or if someone has sprayed it with something.

Does anyone have any experience with anything like this??
 

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Don't know about a coating, but with the multiple gatemarks and indistinct markings, it would appear to be a low-quality recast whose maker performed no finishing work.
 
It definitely seems to be low quality. There is a patent date on the bottom, but I can't make it out. I am just surprised that what seems to be a quality reject is still around, untouched, 120 years later. I paid a whopping $17 for it, so I am happy whatever it turns out to be!
 
Multiple, overlapping gatemarks are evidence the piece was cast using an actual pan as a pattern. Therefore, it could have been made any time between the day the original pan was sold and the day before you found it. That a pan uses obsolete casting technology (bottom gating) doesn't necessarily mean it was made when that technology was the standard.
 
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