TylerStClare
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Hi folks,
I found a #5 skillet marked JONES in a Delaware antique shop near Lewes - it had been painted with a cute farm scene, and I definitely hawed a bit at destroying the artwork, but the skillet is really light and finely-cast and it seemed more of a shame to not restore it. I saw one other post on here with a Jones size 5 (and a response that it was in the 'marked mysteries', but I couldn't easily find more about that), and one other that apparently sold on eBay years ago.
This definitely feels like blindly wading into something that someone else probably knows a heck of a lot more about, so please pardon me if this is an ignorant question or theory: I noticed after some Googling that the founders and later presidents of Birmingham Stove and Range all had the surname Jones, and they of course produced a lot of cast iron ware under various brands. The very few Jones skillets which I can find anything about are all size 5s, and the JONES mark looks (to my eye) to be hand-etched, perhaps indicating a prototype or very limited-run production. Might that be the origin of this pan? I'll put photos of my pan below, and a maker's mark comparison image (pardon the low resolution, it's just the best image I could pull of any other Jones skillet)
I found a #5 skillet marked JONES in a Delaware antique shop near Lewes - it had been painted with a cute farm scene, and I definitely hawed a bit at destroying the artwork, but the skillet is really light and finely-cast and it seemed more of a shame to not restore it. I saw one other post on here with a Jones size 5 (and a response that it was in the 'marked mysteries', but I couldn't easily find more about that), and one other that apparently sold on eBay years ago.
This definitely feels like blindly wading into something that someone else probably knows a heck of a lot more about, so please pardon me if this is an ignorant question or theory: I noticed after some Googling that the founders and later presidents of Birmingham Stove and Range all had the surname Jones, and they of course produced a lot of cast iron ware under various brands. The very few Jones skillets which I can find anything about are all size 5s, and the JONES mark looks (to my eye) to be hand-etched, perhaps indicating a prototype or very limited-run production. Might that be the origin of this pan? I'll put photos of my pan below, and a maker's mark comparison image (pardon the low resolution, it's just the best image I could pull of any other Jones skillet)
