BSR handle

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DonnaM

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I have just read through "Identifying Unmarked...BSR" and am wondering if all BSR handles have what I can only describe as sort of an elongated scoop-out around the elongated hole, rather than just an elongated hole...? (Hard to describe....) I've never seen one or a picture of one that didn't, but was wondering if there were exceptions.

IMG_2038 by donna manion, on Flickr
 
Yes there are exceptions. After BSR switched to DISA automation they experimented with differently shaped skillets, and their handles deviate to various degrees from the classic BSR.

Examples would include the chef skillet, square skillet, and breakfast griddle, among others.

And then in the late '70s they did a "Lady Bess" line to commemorate the bicentennial, and those had wooden handles.
 
Kev, yes, I see the ridge on the back is gone. It still has the elongated scoop-out over the elongated opening...did that eventually change as well?
 
The rubric about being able to ID a piece as BSR because the ridge on the handle doesn't flatten out where it meets the sidewall of the pan applies for the most part to regular skillets of the Red Mountain and Century periods. Other specialty pans with handles did not always conform to it, nor did some odd BSR skillet patterns seen with a flattened area. The specialty pans are identifiable as BSR as a result of other characteristics shared by most BSR pieces, e.g. lettering fonts, marking placements, etc.
 
Don't mean to be running this into the ground, but I am asking about the SHAPE of the HOLE, not the ridge that may or may not be on the back of the handle. ;)

My original query:

"I have just read through "Identifying Unmarked...BSR" and am wondering if all BSR handles have what I can only describe as sort of an elongated scoop-out around the elongated hole, rather than just an elongated hole...? (Hard to describe....) I've never seen one or a picture of one that didn't, but was wondering if there were exceptions."
 
BSR regular skillet handle bottom holes, with minor variation in shape, have the appearance of the one in your photo. If you scroll through the photos of BSR pans on the unmarked ID page, you will see the similarities even in some of the specialty pans.
 
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