Are These Blacklocks??

[SShort]

Paid $16 a piece for these. Are they blacklocks?

 

[Doug D.]

No. If not copies, they appear to be no-notch Lodge.

 

[SShort]

Copies? Can you elaborate?

 

[Doug D.]

From what can be seen, there are casting anomalies in the "D" one that one would hope Lodge wouldn't have let pass.

 

[SShort]

And who would have copied these? And for what purpose? Was there a market for copying unmarked Lodge skillets?

 

[Doug D.]

There wasn't a market for Lodge copies. Pattern making was an expensive part of a foundry's start up costs. Small or under-capitalized operations would often use the pans of others as patterns or to create multiple working patterns. It's why you see Erie ghosts on early Wapaks and Wagners, for example.

Try laying one on top of the other upside down, lip-to-lip, and see if they are the exact same diameter.

 

[SShort]

Great information! Thank you very much. With my luck they would match because they are both copies.....

 

[Doug D.]

The other possibility is that the "D" molder just got a little messy applying his mark and touched it up hastily. I have a #9 Lodge with a fingerprint cast in it.

 

[SShort]

May I ask how this site is funded? Is there a way to donate?

 

[Doug D.]

See the "Shopping" link in the taskbar above.

 

[SShort]

Layed the skillets down as you suggested. Matched perfectly. Which is older? A no notch lodge with the large #8 on the handle and the letter on the bottom of the skillet or the no notch with no number on the handle but still has the letter on the bottom?