Oddest skillet need help identifying

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Jim Baldwin

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Its not cast iron but aluminum and looks to have been poured in a cast iron mold. Ive googled and not a lot of sucess. I collect mainly cast iron pieces with gate marks and never seen an aluminum piece with a gate mark
 
Looks like what you have there is a "recast". Someone took an iron skillet and used it as a pattern. They used bottom gating because it is a simpler technology than side gating. They used aluminum probably because it's what they had or only were able to work with. This is likely just a one-off by someone trying their hand at metal casting. If it were a commercially-produced piece, being aluminum, it would have more likely had an attached wood or possibly a coil handle, but not one part of the casting like an iron pan.
 
Thanks very much for the information. The pan measures 7 and a 1/4 from spout to spout. There was another that I let a friend get that was also aluminum only bigger at 12 inches and no gatemark. These were at a local flea market and from a spanish dealer. Its very probable someone did this in Mexico.
 
My neighbor has a cast aluminum skillet that he made in a shop class many years ago. He had to bring in his mom's skillet and make a copy in aluminum. I think that is how your pan was made and many others too.
 
I picked up a couple of aluminum #3 Wagner's for my daughter to play with (she is 2 and a half, and nearly dropped a #5 on her foot instead of mine). One looks just like the regular iron one, the other has a hammered exterior and a wood handle.
 
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