Gated #7 Skillet. Can You Identify?

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I picked up this gated number seven cast-iron skillet for $10. I thought it may be a Marietta but the spout does not look right. Any ideas?
 

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The Marietta (as in Marietta, PA) skillets I've seen are marked that, and have outside heat rings. There's really no way to ascertain an unmarked bottom-gated piece's maker unless they were known to produce unmarked goods with unique characteristics. On what are you basing the Marietta assumption?
 
It seems that the Marietta pices I have seen have a more rounded spout as opposed to this one which is more pointed.
 
I do see a Marietta on eBay currently with an inset heat ring. It is marked. My expectation would be that if yours were Marietta, it would also be marked. If your piece was able to be compared to a marked Marietta and found to be identical in dimensions and in all other ways, that might support them as being the maker. But seeing as copying of others by probably hundreds of small foundries went on in those days, it's highly unlikely. As stated, trying to tie an old unmarked, bottom-gated skillet to a known maker is typically an exercise in futility.
 
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