Here's one for ye...

[RobM]

Saucepan pot or sauce pot. The one with the long steel handle. I don't recognize the font or the makers mark - Diamond L.

GF managed 2 of these today, one 7 quart and one 2 gallon. Here's a shot of the bottom of the 2 gall (2 GALL's). Both are gate marked, both seem like sisters of the same set. I'm stumped. Don't know if it's English or not.

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One beer too many... Wouldn't be english, they didn't use gallons and quarts.

 

[W. Hilditch]

I'm two up on you. Imperial gallon, yes. Quarts, no.

Hilditch

 

[RLMuse]

I'm two up on you. Imperial gallon, yes. Quarts, no.

Hilditch

The English did indeed use "Quarts". An Imperial quart was 1/4 or an Imperial gallon.

An imperial quart = 1.20095 U.S. quarts

It probably is British as they commonly use "GALL" as the abbreviation for gallon, whereas we use "GAL" in the U.S.

 

[W. Hilditch]

My bad. RL is right.

Hilditch

 

[RobM]

First one is stripped, looks great - but the bottom is full of lead, was used as a crucible early on from the look of it. What a shame, just a wall hanger.

 

[BKComer]

question when you say lead in the bottom how can you tell this. I have a small pot I bought that looks great but the inside bottom looks a little different and its thicker than others I have. For is size its heavy and you can tell the weight is in that area. Could this be lead or some other metal?

 

[DougH]

question when you say lead in the bottom how can you tell this. I have a small pot I bought that looks great but the inside bottom looks a little different and its thicker than others I have. For is size its heavy and you can tell the weight is in that area. Could this be lead or some other metal?

When in doubt, buy a lead testing kit at a hardware store. Lead is not something you want to be wrong about.

 

[RobM]

question when you say lead in the bottom how can you tell this. I have a small pot I bought that looks great but the inside bottom looks a little different and its thicker than others I have. For is size its heavy and you can tell the weight is in that area. Could this be lead or some other metal?

Put the pot through a lye bath and electro.

There is a soft metal stuck all over the bottom, I managed to dig enough to get some of it off, it's lead and I don't need a test kit to prove it. It's buried in the walls of the pot as well. This thing was seasoned over the top, looks like it was used for cooking after the fact.

I'll post a pic later.

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Some pics. Can see the shiny around the side, there's some on the lip as well...

View of the bottom, bits and pieces. Not hard to tell.