Breakfast Skillet ID

[DSBradley]

I saw this today on eBay and couldn't place it. I was thinking BSR but I don't know. I couldn't find another one like it. It's built like a Wagner but with the handle on the opposite side. Different

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-ANTIQUE-CAST-IRON-COLONIAL-BREAKFAST-SKILLET-COOKING-B-E-H-8-BACON-AND-EGGS/321961014063?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D775fa14dd345429b9675b13895aafcce%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D151928950432

 

[Doug D.]

It's Lodge.

 

[DSBradley]

Cool, thanks. They must have cast that one before 1960, didn't Wagner fight them on design or was it one of those patents that ran out because of age of design?

 

[W. Hilditch]

I think it went like this: Griswold started out first making breakfast skillets in mass. Then Wagner copied and changed the orientation of the handle to get around patent infringement. Then Lodge jumped in by changing the handle orientation again, but by then the breakfast skillet boat had sailed. I find the Griswold orientation the best by far.

Hilditch

 

[DSBradley]

Thanks Hilditch! I can tell a Griswold from a Wagner by the corners pretty easy. The Lodge is just the handle. Thanks again for the info.

Scott