Help Identify This Unmarked #12 with Heat Ring

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MJ Polzin

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I found this pan on a facebook post and purchased it. I would love to have your help identifying it.

There is only one intentional mark on it. It is a raised #12 on the assist. The numbers are askew. The handle appears slightly lopsided to me, almost like it has some casting defects that were ground off. The underside of the handle looks almost like a ribbed handle, but the rib is flat and ground in an unusual uneven manner.

In my little bit of searching, I have seen one of these posted on Etsy being called a Blacklock, but I know better than to jump into that boat.

It has a very similar shape to Wagners of the 1920's, but it measures only 11 3/8 inches instead of the 11 3/4 advertised by Wagner.

Please chime in. I am quite curious to hear your thoughts!

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No one knows for certain what a Blacklock skillet looks like, but someone in attempt to link pans like it to early Lodge has forwarded the theory that these could be.
 
Doug D. said:
No one knows for certain what a Blacklock skillet looks like, but someone in attempt to link pans like it to early Lodge has forwarded the theory that these could be.
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My understanding was that the lack of a raised number on the bottom of the skillet eliminated Blacklock as being an option.
 
What Blacklock skillets might look like originated with a single photo of a pan with an outside heat ring in the Lodge section of the Red Book. The authors noted the characteristics of the raised size number atop the handle and the raised molder's mark letter on the bottom were like that of Lodge, but didn't go quite so far as to state it was Lodge unequivocally. But the statement "may date back to the Blacklock foundry" has been construed to mean the photo is indeed what Blacklock skillets looked like. Until we find a photo of Joseph Lodge standing in front of the Blacklock foundry holding up a skillet, we're not going to know for sure.

I don't think the lack of a molder's mark on yours means it's not by the same foundry that made the pans that in all other respects look like it, though. Some aspects of it might look a little sloppy, but I don't think it's a recast.
 
is it common to have the raised size on the assist tab rather than the handle?

I have an arc logo Lodge #10 with the raised size on the handle (that was the only place I recall seeing the raised size on a skillet)... I've seen lids and things with raised sizes... just wondering.
 
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