Help with an ID - Sauce pot

[NLevine]

Saw this but can't figure out the marker. The handle on the lid makes me think BSR. Any guesses?

 

[EricC]

No need to guess - 2QT BSR saucepan. I have one like it.

EDIT - Check out the underside of the lid, if it has dimples it's Red Mountain and if it's smooth it's pre-automation Century; post-automation Century had a tabbed lid handle.

 

[NLevine]

No need to guess - 2QT BSR saucepan. I have one like it.

Thanks Eric!

Follow up question: is it a rare item or pretty common? I haven't come across any but i also haven't really been intentionally looking.

 

[EricC]

As far as I know the saucepans are much rarer than the skillets, but the 2QT is the most common of the three sizes (with the 1QT the rarest), at least in my limited experience. But none are particularly valuable from a collectible perspective.

Funny this came up, though - Just last weekend I was on a hayride at a farm and saw an old rusty post-DISA 3QT BSR saucepan (with tabbed lid) being used as a prop in one of the scarecrow exhibits... so they're around...

 

[Doug D.]

I would say you just don't see too many CI saucepans b/c they're not really practical. More of a camping utensil than a kitchen one.