Waffle Iron ID

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JeffreyL

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A good friend of mine gave me this really gunky waffle iron set to clean up and see if we could identify, according to the story, his dad plowed it up in a field around an old homestead and threw it in the corner of the barn in the 70's.

I don't have it all cleaned up yet but does anyone have any idea on what it is?
Raised No. 100 and 388 on both paddles. If we can identify and find a base think it's usable
https://imgur.com/a/GU17W
 
Jeffery....May I ask where the location was that this piece was found? Sometimes that can provide a clue as to where it was made.
I know that Loge and BSR both made WI's with integrated handles as part of the mold. I have them both and the BSR handle broke during shipment and it now sets on my shop floor awaiting its fate.
The capital N and the small o fits the pattern of several makers including Griswold but not sure about anything else.
 
JeffreyL said:
Found in Michigan
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Thanks for the speedy reply. Sometimes opening one door can lead to multiple doors and in this case it has.

NSB & Co. out of Chicago was a big supplier of a lot of CI in the mid west and a lot of their stuff was made by Griswold which takes me back to the (No.) identification. The 388 part number for Griswold was a tobacco cutter handle but as we know there were a number of CI pieces that used a three digit number for multiple pieces.
There were other foundry's located in that region (Home Comfort) makers of broilers and WI's. Morgan Mfg. and Nordic Ware (1946) mainly makers of skillets.
Since your piece has that skillet type handle I am assuming it was made sometime in the early 1900's but it is only a guess.

Wish I had more to offer but I would need to do a lot of research to try and come up with a definite maker. The good thing about our site is it provides multiple paths to discover various CI pieces.

This will take more expertise by someone such as Doug D. to maybe give a positive clue.
 
I don't see any Griswold connection in any of the markings, nor in the piece as a whole, nor Lodge or BSR, either. It would be interesting to know how fine the casting was originally, before it spent decades buried in a field. The inside appears to have survived it fairly well. Also interesting is the maker having the notion to make the ball hinge so that both irons of a pair could be cast from the same pattern, a feature part of Wagner's 1925 waffle iron design patent, but that should not be taken to infer a Wagner connection.

Bear in mind that as people moved west, they took their CI with them, so where a piece is found does not necessarily imply a nearby maker.
 
The inside did survive really well, it's almost perfect. That's why we were hoping for an ID and find a base because I believe it's usable
 
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