Early LODGE #7 Cast Iron Skillet w/ matching Cover

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NO RESERVE AUCTION with fixed cost Insured FedEx shipping with Parcel Tracking and Delivery Confirmation, to any Continental United States STREET ADDRESS. Bidders from AK, HI, or the American Protectorates please e-mail for shipping rates, as they may be more. Please note that I routinely combine shipping (PER MY INVOICE) via Federal Express, for multiple auction wins shipped in one well-packed parcel, at significant cost savings to you. Professionally cleaned, fully restored and verified as authentic, this is vintage LODGE as it was meant to look!! When this less common 70+ year old #7 cast iron Skillet, with its matching very uncommon #7 Lid, left the Lodge factory, it was NOT encrusted with grease and carbon, was NOT rusty, did NOT reek of rancid oil, and allowing for very routine kitchen use, now once again looks much like they did so many decades ago! This auction is for a VERY GOOD Lodge #7 ( Iron Finish ) cast iron skillet with inset heat ring, well mated to its VERY GOOD Lodge #7 ( iron finish ) cast iron Skillet Cover, both in VERY GOOD overall condition. Established in South Pittsburg, Tennessee around 1910, as the successor to the Blacklock Foundry, the Lodge Manufacturing Company in its time, produced some of the best regarded cast iron hollow ware ever produced in America, prior to 1960. Lodge is one of the very few American companies that continues to exist, and still produces cast iron hollow ware to this day. Sadly, in the face of foreign competition and economic necessity, Lodge has since adopted casting and finishing methods that are no longer the equal of their earlier products for casting quality and craftmanship, that were in their day, the equal of anything that the likes of Griswold, Wagner or Favorite ever produced . This not often found vintage LODGE #7 frying pan, produced sometime during the 1930's , measures 9.875" rim-to-rim, 10.625" spout-to-spout, 14.25" rim-to-handle tip, at 2.0" deep, with a cooking surface diameter of 8.0", and has an inset heat ring (with a single break at the top) with a diameter of 7.25". This vintage cooking pan is embossed with a prominent size number " 7" on the handle top, and on the exterior bottom, is embossed with the maker's mark " C" below . This rarely found matching LODGE #7 frying pan cover, also produced sometime during the 1930's , measures 9.875" rim-to-rim, 10.625" spout cover-to-spout cover, has a 9.5" milled inner lip that nestles nicely within the rim of its matching skillet with no rocking or wobble, is 1.25" deep at the crown, and 2.5" deep from the top of the loop-style top handle, is embossed on its top with a prominent size number " 7", and has thirty-seven (37) Self-Basting Drip Drop points on its interior, and is embossed with the maker's mark " F". This vintage LODGE #7 skillet set is very well cast for this early era, of fine grained iron with minimal exterior casting roughness, and with only a very few casting bumps, dimples and flow marks in evidence, this quality-made and fully cleaned vintage iron fry pan set has no chips, cracks, pits, rust, warping, bowing, or repairs, sits absolutely flat on any level surface, and rings very nicely, like a bell, when tapped. Very collectible to be sure, and having a nice warm, rich dark color, this cooking skillet has been pre-seasoned with vegetable shortening for your immediate cooking use or display. Frequent use of this frying skillet has greatly worn the still very lightly evident manufacturer's milling marks "CARTWHEEL EFFECT" on the pan's polished interior, even more visable on the cooking surface sides, and in the spouts. Despite the presence of a few tiny utensil marks and fine scratches, the cooking surface is still VERY SMOOTH to the touch, EXCELLENT for cooking purposes, and virtually non-stick! Any questions? Please click on the " me " icon following my eBay ID above for FAQ's, or e-mail me. No dark or fuzzy pictures ! Check out the high resolution, enlargeable pictures below, taken in natural daylight without flash, and plac... read more

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