Mystery enameled 9-ear corn stick pan in very unusual configuration. Anyone know it?

[GabrielleStriker]

Hello everyone! This is my first post here in a number years (in fact I even forgot I HAD ever made an actual post - I usually just lurk!)

Today I come to you guys with (to me, at least) a REAL head scratcher.

I am thinking of buying a CI lot from someone, but I've only seen very poor photos at this point (hoping to go look in person today or tomorrow). The lot seems to be mostly vintage lodge skillets and a few DOs.

However, there is a 9-ear corn stick pan in the group with the most unusual configuration I have EVER seen. I've been thinking of it as a "7+2", because there are 7 sticks in a row like usual, but then two more underneath the row of seven, laid end-to-end!

Of course nothing like this is in the blue or red book, and I don't have a gem-specific book to check.

I spent over an hour trying to find any examples of this online, and I found ONE - it was a Worthpoint listing. All that listing said was that the pan was "vintage", with no further information. The pan appears to be enameled on the cooking face.

I would just die to know more about this super weird pan, but I'm hoping maybe one of you folks might know something about it and can share some info with me!

I have posted the one very poor photo from the FB marketplace listing, as well as two much better photos of what I believe to be the same type of pan, taken from the Worthpoint website.

Thank you SO much for any help you can provide!!

 

[CraigA.]

That's an odd one for sure.

 

[GabrielleStriker]

I'm glad it's not just me! Lol

 

[D James]

It's not in the Griswold yellow book. My search for '7+2 ear corn stick pan' is yielding either 7 or 9 ear pans, all in a row.
It looks interesting...

 

[Doug D.]

I wouldn't consider Griswold for this one. Their pans will have pattern numbers incised, even if otherwise unmarked. It really feels like someone (a foundry) with the resources to accomplish it, took a Wagner cornstick pan (or two) and decided, for whatever reason, to produce this enigma. It isn't bottom gated, the typical hallmark of quick-and-dirty copies and fabrications using other pans as patterns. They took the time to move the handles to a position centered on their pattern. The small circles that appear at various points are a curiosity. Were they artifacts of rivets used to hold the cobbled-together pattern together? If so, why are there half circles at the edges near the two oddly-placed cups? Obviously, there were enough of them made by whomever to have them show up in more than one place, but I doubt the maker will ever be found.

Goggle Lens also produces at least one result claiming the pan shown is aluminum.