Mystery griddle

[TyHiggins]

I electroed the rust off, and I think I have an oldie. My daughter lost my camera, but it sucks for closeups anyway, I'd sure love to show it off after though. I'll attach the before pic, maybe the handle will tell something.

It has a stylized 9 on the bottom at 6 o'clock, sort of wide but rounded. The griddle seems made in the older style, the rim keeping the surface higher. There's what looks like minor casting flaws along the top of the rim maybe a couple inches wide at 12 o'clock, maybe where they poured it?

What really has me psyched is the ghost mark, and too ghostly for me to figure out, on the bottom at 12 o'clock. It resembles a wide low crown shape, can't tell what might've been written in it.

 

[TyHiggins]

Here it is anyway, and only $4 so I'm tickled.

 

[Ken Davis]

Looks like a Wagner Ware Sydney -O- so far. Possibly a Wardway by Wagner. The handle being the obvious clue for me.

 

[TyHiggins]

I thought that about the handle too (half expected the cleaning to reveal the Wagner logo), but it is clearly unmarked if so, and does have a ghost mark. Also the 9 looks different, it very strongly resembles the 9 on the "Artistic" Erie (1906) pictured on the Trademarks and Logos link on this site. It matters naught to me, I find the mystery pieces the most intriguing, and the quality is usually excellent. It is just a shade smaller in diameter than my Griswold large logo #9 griddle, and a bit lighter.

 

[TyHiggins]

Here is a close up of the 9, to me the style looks like perhaps early 1900's.

 

[Doug D.]

What's at 12 o'clock? Or was it a rusty red herring?

 

[TyHiggins]

A very faint ghostmark, no way it'd show up in a pic. It's sort of like a crown outline shape maybe two inches wide or so.