Trademarks & Logos

Listed here are the trademarks or logos of the major U.S. cast iron hollow ware-producing foundries of the late 19th and early to mid-20th centuries.
Trademarks varied from as simple as the name of the city of manufacture in plain, block letters, such as the coveted "Erie" pieces produced by Griswold in the late 1800s, to the more elaborately-styled scripts, logos, symbols, and descriptive markings used by Wagner, Griswold, Martin, Favorite, and others up through the 1950s.
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Favorite Piqua Ware Block
FPW Block "The Best To Cook In"
FPW Stylized Font
FPW Stylized Font "Smiley"
Favorite Stoves & Ranges Sunrise Logo
Miami Diamond Logo
FPW Smiley/Miami Diamond, Dual Logo
Puritan (Sears Roebuck) by Favorite
Selden & Griswold (1870-1890)
Erie (1880-1910)
Erie Spider (1870-1890)
Griswold's Erie Diamond (1884-1909)
"Artistic" Erie (1906)
Griswold's Erie (1905-1906)
3¼"+ Diameter, Italicized Lettering aka "Slant" Logo (1906-1912¹, 1909-29², 1939-44³)
3¼"+ Diameter, Block Lettering aka Large Block Logo (1920-1940)⁴
1⅞" Diameter, Block Lettering aka Small Block Logo (1939-1957)⁵
2¼"-2½" Diameter, Block Lettering aka Medium Block Logo or Late Large TM (1955-1957)⁶
Griswold Slant "No Erie" (1909-1920)
Victor (1880s-1920s)
Victor/Griswold Mfg. Co. aka Fully-Marked Victor (1920-1935)
Good Health (1920s-1930s)
Best Made S.R. & Co. (Sears Roebuck) (1920s)
Puritan (Sears Roebuck) (1920s-1930s)
Merit (Sears Roebuck) (1920s-1940s)
Arc Logo (1910-1930s)
"Egg" Logo (1987-1993)
"Egg" Logo (1993-)
Stylized ("Hamburger") Logo (1920-1950s)
Block Logo (1940-1953)
Sidney Script Logo
Sidney Hollow Ware Co. Block
Vollrath Logo (1920s-1940s)
Wagner Block (1890s)
Wagner Arc (1891-1910)
Wagner Sidney O. Arc/Arc (1895-1915)
Sidney Arc Logo (1897-1903)⁷
Sidney Block, Centered (1897-1903)⁷
Wagner Sidney O. Straight/Straight, Centered (1910-1915)
Wagner Sidney O. Arc/Straight, Low (1910-1915)
Wagner Sidney O. Arc/Straight, High (1915-1920)
Wagner Ware Sidney O. Arc/Straight/Straight (1920s)⁸
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Stylized Logo, High (1922-1924, heat ring & size no.; 1924-1935, heat ring & c/n; 1935-1959, smooth bottom)
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Stylized Logo, Centered (1924-1935, heat ring & c/n)⁹
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Stylized Logo, "Pie Logo" (1924-1934)¹⁰
National Arc Logo (1890s-1920s)
National/Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Stylized, Dual Logo w/size number (1922-1924)
National/Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Stylized, Dual Logo w/catalog no. (1924-1945)
Long Life (1930s)
Montgomery Ward/Wardway (1930s)
Indian Head Logo (1903-1926)
Wapak Arc (1903-1910)
Wapak "Chickenfoot" P (1903-1910)
Wapak Block (1903-1910)
Wapak "Z" Logo (1903-1926)
Wapak Tapered (1912-1926)
Oneta Block by Wapak (1912-1926)
All date ranges are best estimates of when a particular TM was produced, and do not necessarily denote the beginning and/or end of production of that TM. Production of many makers' different trademarks often overlapped by several years.