BSR Cornbread Skillet?

[MKBerry]

Hey everybody...I'm not new at loving cast iron cookware and I have a handful of skillets and dutch ovens passed down from grandparents, but I am new at trying to identify what I have and new to this forum. With very little research and most of the good information coming from this site, i thought i knew how to identify a BSR cornbread skillet. I have a not so old Lodge with the hole in the center and clearly marked Lodge with the egg symbol and read here about the history of BSR and Lodge and the patent and the differences between the lodge and original BSR. Just yesterday i picked up a nice cornbread skillet for $15 that i was sure must be a BSR because the center hole doesn't go all the way through. But now i wonder. My skillet does not have the words " CORNBREAD SKILLET " on the back, just PAT. PENDING. So now I'm doubting my identification.

Any ideas on this from the experts would be greatly appreciated.

Seems my picture files are too large to upload so I will try another method later...sorry about that

Thanks

 

[Doug D.]

The BSR CBS pans are seen marked a variety of ways. They can be viewed here: https://www.castironcollector.com/gems.php#bsr Both have the classic BSR handle shape.

 

[MKBerry]

Resized so not sure how clear they will be but again, the words..Cornbread Skillet...are not on the bottom of this one

By the way...thanks Doug for your reply...

 

[Doug D.]

It's a BSR 8CBS, before they added the other markings. It doesn't appear a patent was ever actually filed or awarded.

 

[MKBerry]

Thanks, I really do appreciate your time