Picked Up a NO. 262 and #1 Gem Pan

[MikeL]

I went back to the flea market today to pick up the Wards Cast Iron griddle. On the way home I stopped at a little flea market that I don't go to very often. This is what I found.

The NO. 262 has a little surface rust but no pitting. Is this the toy or the tea size, or are they the same thing?

The Gem pan has a raised 1 and P on opposite ends of the back, on the front, one handle looks like something might have been there at one time. Is there any thing known about this pan?

 

[Jeff S.]

The NO. 262 has a little surface rust but no pitting. Is this the toy or the tea size, or are they the same thing?

The Griswold 262 is referred to as the toy. The small Wagner cornbread pan is marked "Tea Size" on the back.

 

[Doug D.]

In Griswold catalogs, the 262 is grouped with the other corn stick pans and referred to as tea size. Not until the shape was repurposed for the Wagner 1891 Original commemorative toy set was it sold a a toy.

The gem pan is one typically seen copied from Waterman or R&E. The obliterated markings on the handle top were likely one of them. Looks like a copy of a copy by what appears to be overlapping gate marks.