My daughter's garage sale find

[Charles_Cox]

My daughter picked this up at a garage sale for .25 cents, they gave her a Lacreuset lid with it for free. I think its an old smooth bottom BSR. The only marking is the 7A on the bottom at 6 o'clock. The handle has a ridge underneath that runs to the body of the skillet. The pour spouts are very small. I've been soaking it in a lye bath. It's a well bought skillet, .25 cents can't be beat, but is it a BSR?

 

[Doug D.]

Is it a deep skillet?

 

[Charles_Cox]

No, it's about the same depth as my BSR century

 

[Doug D.]

BSR family members maintain that no smooth bottom skillets other than chicken fryers were made by them. Suspicions about these include Asian made with country of origin on paper labels only or possibly Martin. It looks clearly automation-molded. I don't know if Martin had automation, but, operating until the early 1950s, I suppose they could have.