Identify Foundry Mark

[L Brown]

hi, helping a friend identify a cast iron scalding pot.It's large with no handles or feet and has a marking on the bottom that looks like an E . Can anyone identify the maker for me have been unable to find it myself.

 

[Doug D.]

Such marks, especially if crude (and raised), may only be those of a foundry worker recording his production to be tallied for pay by the piece. Manufacturers, if their patterns were made with identifying markings, were usually not cryptic about it.

 

[RickC]

A mark like that would have been very easy to make by the worker in the sand mold with the tip of a screwdriver, tip of a chisel, or something like that.

There are lots of different molder's marks that look like someone took the time to make a little stamp for their work, Stars, circles, anchors, initials etc. that they'd use over and over again.

 

[Doug D.]

There are lots of different molder's marks that look like someone took the time to make a little stamp for their work, Stars, circles, anchors, initials etc. that they'd use over and over again.

Molder's marks are usually just initials or a number, and are raised. But if those marks are incised, they would be pattern maker's marks, e.g. like those seen on Erie skillets.

 

[SeanD]

I have a #9 2nd series. It has the chalice makers mark, its really clear too.