Newb here - cook more than a collector - investigating a weird piece

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SGriffin

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Yeah, I cook with my stuff. Until my wife moved in, I had two Lodge pans - an 8" and a 10", and I pretty much used them for everything short of omelettes.

Anyway, she brought a pretty significant collection of stuff she scavenged from all sorts of places - junk stores, flea markets, etc. - even a handful of nice Wagner and Gris she salvaged from a dump - re-seasoned them and enjoyed the heck out of them...

So there's this one thing - looks very similar to the Lodge combo cooker, only it has a top (well, had, until a guy who was going to braze it for her stole it). Unbranded, and have never seen the crescent moon scalloping on the bottom of any pan like this. Anyone have any clue what it is?

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SGriffin said:
You seem to be hinting that this might be a fake?
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No hinting. They're generally accepted by collectors as having been made by Lodge. Dutch ovens are more often-seen, but your pans share the same characteristic markings.
 
So this would be a slightly earlier example of the Lodge combo cooker, before they started making the top skillet serve double duty?

Shame about the lid, though it was cracked, which is why the guy offered to braze it for her in the first place. It was also scalloped with the same pattern.
 
Did the missing piece have a handle like these, or a loop handle like most lids?
 
The Lodge 4-in-1 set was a 2-piece: a skillet/DO with a lid that doubled as a skillet. This set appears to be somewhat of a combo cooker-type setup. The classic combo cooker was a 3-piece: a pot, a skillet/intermediate pan, and a lid/skillet piece.
 
The raised molder's mark they all seem to have suggests pre-1940s. I would say 1930s is a good bet.
 
There is no question that those scalloped bottom pans were made by Lodge. They have, if I remember right, the typical small raised molder's letter on them. During our tour of the Lodge foundry around 10-12 years ago with WAGS we saw a small collection of these pans in a Lodge family home. Included were a couple of toy pieces.
 
Well, at this point, being that we're pinched for space and have such a huge array of cast iron cookery already, we're considering selling it. Without the lid, what's a piece like this worth? 20 bucks? 30? 40?
 
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