I have 2 #7 gate marked skillets which have the have the handles broken off. They sit flat no wobbles very smooth surface really nice skillets. I have seen few more pieces with the handles broken off. Just out of curiosity why would the handles be broken off? I plan on having a friend that is a welder make me some handles on them so I can use them for cornbread they are that good but does any one have any idea why the handles are off?
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Gate Marked #7 Skillets with Handles Broken Off
- Thread starter WArvin
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I have two skillets with broken handles. In both cases, I dropped the skillet on to a hard wood floor and the handle snapped off.
If dropped or otherwise torqued the leverage of the thin handle would create a stress point at the attachment or along the actual handle.
As you look at more and more old skillets from gate-marked late 1800's up through the early 1920's one of the characteristics that had the most changes was the design of the handle... the older 'fancy handles' that arched upwards, then the flat ones, the attachment pad, no pad, rib, medium rib, then the heavier looking BSR style... and I think we know why there were so many different styles.
Russell S.
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They may have been broken off on purpose so both pans could fit in an older small oven back in the day just to bake cornbread and biscuits.