Giant antique mall - 6 lousy pieces of CI

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TonyR

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I stopped, against my better judgment, to a big antique mall. There was no CI in sight, except for one little booth with a half dozen pieces.
Gate marked spider 'spinner' (even with the feet!), no name gem pan and biscuit pan, and a tea size Krusty Kornbread mold. Never saw one of those before. Didn't get it because I'd never use it. I thought $24 was too much. I was right, total waste of my time. Man, Madison WI is pretty much cleaned out!!
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I'm from the Milwaukee area. All the area antique stores and malls are nearly devoid of cast iron cookware. I've named all the area antique stores in my head based on something weird or ridiculously priced. "The one with the coffin", "The one with the $35 fake Griswold #0", "The one with the $48 Griswold griddle missing a chunk". I need to do a Dan Farmer style Tennessee trip at some point this winter or I'm gonna go insane.
 
I know! It's like aliens came down and sucked up all the good stuff, Ty. It's just blind dumb luck for us to find anything close to what Bonnie does. I'm thinking about going door to door to the farms. Well, after the thaw.
 
I hit both the Madison and Milwaukee areas myself and agree, either CI is minimal or way over priced. The one phrase that I hate when they ask me what I'm looking for is: "Oh, we just sold all of it this morning." I've heard it so often, it can't be true.

I have been lucky here and there picking up individual pieces. I just wish I had more time to hit garage and estate sales.
 
Had a good hunt at various antique malls/stores in the Racine/Kenosha area today, mixed in with some hilariously overpriced iron. Saw the most spinniest spinner I've ever seen, a #6 formerly flat bottomed Wagner Sidney -O- that wobbled like it was carved out of a bowling ball. Seriously, was it supposed to be a weeble or a skillet? Antique store employee was eyeballing me all through the store so I got snarky and told my daughter "this is what they call a spinner" while holding up the skillet for both my daughter and the antique store lady to see. I set it on the concrete floor and let it go round and round and round and round.... where she'll stop nobody knows..... Asking price: $35. I left that one there and bought the $13 #5 smooth, flat, non-pitted Griswold sitting right on top of it.
 
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