Dutch Oven with Legs

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Jeffrey R.

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Get ready for some 4th of July camp fire cookouts.

No, it is not that early but will make a nice user for the Lodge collector.

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Bonnie Scott said:
Nice DO. I am curious what year it was made. It looks like it's fresh from the store. Is it from the 60s?
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You saying that I did a good job, Thank You. You should have seen it before.
Fresh from the store, Sorry just not my style.:icon_rofl:

My guess is sometime after 1960 and before they started putting the name Lodge on them.
 
You see so many older pieces with the legs sawn/ground off. This one looks like it spent it's life on a shelf somewhere. Nice find!

We have no water here (Calif.), so all the vegetation is brown. I don't think we're allowed to build camp fires anymore. I'd HAVE to saw the legs off so I could use this one in the kitchen. :-(
 
I really need a couple of legged DO's, trying to hold off buying a new one just in case I come across one.

I'm done with second guessing guessing when I'm on the hunt. Spotted a Lewis and Clarke a while ago at a local thrift shop for $30, let it slip not knowing if it was worth it. By the time I got back a couple of hours later, it was of course gone. Seen it in a local antique mall a week later for $125.
 
RickC said:
You see so many older pieces with the legs sawn/ground off. This one looks like it spent it's life on a shelf somewhere. Nice find!

We have no water here (Calif.), so all the vegetation is brown. I don't think we're allowed to build camp fires anymore. I'd HAVE to saw the legs off so I could use this one in the kitchen. :-(
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That is what really irks me when I am in some antique shop looking at old cast iron and see the legs cut off a very early spider. This happened last month. This spider I was looking at should have had 2.5" legs, someone cut them down to about 1". The shop owner sees me looking at it and tries his hardest to sell me a very rare fry pan with legs. I did not want of ask for any help, so I ask who cut off his legs. The owner says all proud, I did as one leg had a chip he states all proud, now it sits flat. I put it down and walk away.

Early cast iron pieces with legs were used on the hearth, so it is common to find them with a chip or a broken leg. Yes, that does take away from its value but not as much as someone cutting of all the legs.:headpop:
 
RickC said:
You see so many older pieces with the legs sawn/ground off. This one looks like it spent it's life on a shelf somewhere. Nice find!

We have no water here (Calif.), so all the vegetation is brown. I don't think we're allowed to build camp fires anymore. I'd HAVE to saw the legs off so I could use this one in the kitchen. :-(
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I picked up an old camp stove a couple months back. Once I upgrade my e-tank to a larger size and get it cleaned up, I plan to maneuver the feet in and around the grate on the gas stove top...I think it should work fine. My only concern is scratching the stove if it scoots around.
 
There's been off and on a couple dutch ovens of my favorite brand for sale up on the ol' ebay. All the ones I've seen, yep, missing the legs. Just little stumps or ground flat.

I guess when you think about how many years some of these pieces have been around, and how many people have owned them along their journey, it's almost amazing that ANY legs have survived. It's only going to get harder to find pieces that people haven't tried to "improve" by grinding legs off so they can cook on the stove more easily.
 
RickC said:
There's been off and on a couple dutch ovens of my favorite brand for sale up on the ol' ebay. All the ones I've seen, yep, missing the legs. Just little stumps or ground flat.

I guess when you think about how many years some of these pieces have been around, and how many people have owned them along their journey, it's almost amazing that ANY legs have survived. It's only going to get harder to find pieces that people haven't tried to "improve" by grinding legs off so they can cook on the stove more easily.
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When they left to open hearth and moved to the wood fired stoves, momma or grandmoms spider skillet had the legs that had no function and had to go. More modern work on old spiders some examples could have been missing one peg leg so the other two had to go. I will pay a little more for an unmarked spider skillet than a known marked Griswold/Wagner anyday.
 
I don't think you can tell by the picture I posted but one of the legs is nearly eaten away from being in the coals. This might also explain the abundance of legless kettles.
 
BryanB said:
When they left to open hearth and moved to the wood fired stoves, momma or grandmoms spider skillet had the legs that had no function and had to go. More modern work on old spiders some examples could have been missing one peg leg so the other two had to go. I will pay a little more for an unmarked spider skillet than a known marked Griswold/Wagner anyday.
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Me too, but then again, I'm not looking for Griswold or Wagner.. I already have strikes against me. Non Griswold/Wagner Dutch ovens, cast right around the turn of the century. This foundry probably cast 1/100th the pieces those brands cast. And to find one with legs still attached. The phrase needle in a hay stack comes to mind. I have time on my side.
 
Jeffrey R. said:
Get ready for some 4th of July camp fire cookouts.

No, it is not that early but will make a nice user for the Lodge collector.

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I have this exact same Camp Oven. (Notice the C.O. on the bottom)

Found it at the local scrap metal yard. Paid $10.00 for it.

Cleaned up nice, needs to be seasoned a little bit more than it is though.
 
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