This Griswold "0" has to be fake, right?

[SpurgeonH]

I'm killing time in an antique store and came across this ...

The lettering looks funny, like they were writing Giswold and ran out of room. And it almost looks like it says "Griswald".




and the loop in the handle as ragged edges ...

 

[W. Hilditch]

I'd vote for fake.

Hilditch

 

[Doug D.]

Very fake. You can see several repros and counterfeits including this one, plus the real ones for comparison, here:

http://www.castironcollector.com/fakes.php

 

[CJMunnich]

I came across a stack of these in a store in southern Illinois. 10 to 15 of them, bare metal. According to the owner, a local high school was making them in their metal shop years ago.

 

[Steven C]

I came across a stack of these in a store in southern Illinois. 10 to 15 of them, bare metal. According to the owner, a local high school was making them in their metal shop years ago.

I grew up in northern Illinois and my high school also did foundry work, but only poured aluminum at the time. When I got interesting in CI and read how it was done I had a good idea of how it was back in the day from doing some of the same methods. If we had a neat cast iron pattern I might of did one my self. These are the only two I have left I made from aluminum from back then. I also made a set of brass knuckles in aluminum but are now lost to time. I was only limited to what I had for a pattern or rigged to be a pattern. The better you made the mold the less work you had to do to the finished piece later.

Steve,