Identify Foundry Mark

L Brown

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hi, helping a friend identify a cast iron scalding pot.It's large with no handles or feet and has a marking on the bottom that looks like an E . Can anyone identify the maker for me have been unable to find it myself.
 

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Such marks, especially if crude (and raised), may only be those of a foundry worker recording his production to be tallied for pay by the piece. Manufacturers, if their patterns were made with identifying markings, were usually not cryptic about it.
 
A mark like that would have been very easy to make by the worker in the sand mold with the tip of a screwdriver, tip of a chisel, or something like that.

There are lots of different molder's marks that look like someone took the time to make a little stamp for their work, Stars, circles, anchors, initials etc. that they'd use over and over again.
 
There are lots of different molder's marks that look like someone took the time to make a little stamp for their work, Stars, circles, anchors, initials etc. that they'd use over and over again.
Molder's marks are usually just initials or a number, and are raised. But if those marks are incised, they would be pattern maker's marks, e.g. like those seen on Erie skillets.
 
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