Skillet Identification

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William L

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I'm curious about this skillet. On the bottom is "3G1" then a fairly deep "dot" It is a 5 1/2 inch, so I'm guessing that's what the #3 represents. The bottom looks kind of primitive / rough in areas. There's a wide heat ring (?) that kind of fades off on one side and an area where the casting looks a little indented and rough. The inside is smooth as glass. It seems very old, but can't find any way to pinpoint Manufacturer or vintage. Any ideas?

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i would say bsr but the heat ring is very wide for what ever reason and the letters are offset from each other. there usually pretty even
 
Me too Kevin. But in the link above there is a pic with one like that. I think that is the REALLY worn down look.

Hilditch
 
Heat ring looks like someone took a grinder to it and the cooking surface looks too nice to be a recast. I still think it's a BSR.
 
BSR was the closest thing I could find, but the strange heat ring didn't fit, the lettering seems a little off, and the "dot" after the lettering I've never seen. The other strange thing is that the heat ring is more raised on the right (in the picture), and then is almost smooth to the bottom on the left. Also, if you look inside of the ring at the highest part of the ring, on the right, the casting looks somewhat rough.

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Ty L... I thought the same thing about the possibility of the heat ring being ground down, especially becasue of the unevenness of it, but I don't see how that narrow ring could create that wide of a raised area, and it really shows no signs of grinding that I can see.
 
Whoever ground it must have had access to a grinding table. They look like a record player but the turntable is actually a large grinding wheel. Just turn the machine on and hold the skillet flat on the turntable and the machine does all the work. The linear velocity near the center is very slow compared to the linear velocity at the edge, so if the skillet is off center the part closer to the edge will grind down faster, making the bottom flat but uneven.
 
Would like to see a pic of the whole bottom of the skillet including the entire handle. I'm not convinced it's BSR.
 
Yea, most things point to BSR.. maybe Ty is correct on the heat ring being ground down, although I still don't see how it would get this wide and still be raised. It's about 1/4 inch. I don't have any other BSR pieces to compare. Everything else I have is Griswold and a couple Lodge.
Thanks to all for the input... seems like a great group.
 
1/4" high does not make any sense. It may be a BSR copy that went bad and there is more than one around. None of the BSR I have or have seen are like that.

Hilditch
 
W. Hilditch said:
1/4" high does not make any sense. It may be a BSR copy that went bad and there is more than one around. None of the BSR I have or have seen are like that.

Hilditch
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I meant that it is 1/4 inch wide. The heat rings are generally about half that size and I don't see how it could be "ground down" and be 1/4 inch wide and still raised. It's an odd mystery that's for sure.
I hope that makes sense.
 
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