Turk head gate marked pan

It's apparently a recast of an open frame style pan made into a closed frame one. Kind of looks fire damaged, too. I'd put the $10 towards something better.
 
There appear to be both sprue marks and gate marks, of which an original casting should only have one or the other. This pan design usually has cut-outs between the cups as well. Not to say some name brand manufacturers didn't ever modify their open frame patterns into closed frame, but that's unlikely in this case.
 
Doug D. said:
There appear to be both sprue marks and gate marks, of which an original casting should only have one or the other. This pan design usually has cut-outs between the cups as well. Not to say some name brand manufacturers didn't ever modify their open frame patterns into closed frame, but that's unlikely in this case.
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forgive me as im a newbie, but is there a place i can read up on what your talking about so i know? i know what gate marks are and thats about it
 
On very old castings, the iron entered the mold through a small round opening known as a sprue. Later casting technology used gating, in which the iron entered the mold through slits in the sand mold also positioned at what would become the bottom of the piece. Improvements in technology moved the gates to what would become the top lip of the pan.

See also: http://www.castironcollector.com/casting.php
 
So now I'm a little confused. Was the recast done in the late eighteen-hundreds early nineteen-hundreds or would have it been recast during the last couple of decades?
 
A recast could have been made any time after the original pan was acquired by whoever made the recast from it. Some are old, copies made around the time the original was new, or perhaps years, even decades later. Others may be as recent as yesterday.
 
Surely that's not a CI bund to pan for $13 in your picture! (I've never seen one so this may sound silly to those of you who are in the know...)
 
Well, reading how much in demand bundt pans are, I couldn't quite believe it but thought I'd ask. You can get by with a lot of idiotic questions when you're a new collector, thank goodness! :roll:
 
Im one if those idiotic question askers and dont know a lot but the bundt pans were the first thing i looked at. Much to my dismay they are aluminum or stamped steel.
 
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