Dutch Oven ID

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DEngland

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This dutch oven is a piece from a collection that my grandmother passed down to me recently and I am trying to ID it and trying to get an age estimate on it.





Any help would be very much appreciated!
 
I feel comfortable saying pre 1880's...I don't have much knowledge concerning the gate marked pieces, so stay tuned.
 
She actually has 2 more of these, one is unusable due to a whole rusted through it but the other is pretty well in the same condition as this one
 
It is not actually a dutch oven. You have a kettle. Commonly called a bean pot . The gatemark places the pot in a wide range of dates. I see a 8 and a foundry mark, the N. The 8 is a common size, the mark could be a pourer (the person that poured the metal) to account for the number or casts they made. A safe easy date is pre 1920's. The cowhorn ears push it back to the 1890's. Perhaps a few years earlier. If the ears were flat on the top and thicker the date could go back to the 1820's - 1840's. With no records the history is vague. Hope this helps, if not ignore it.

"Where are all the spider skillet lids??"
 
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