Please help me identify.......

[Paul White]

A friend gave this to me yesterday. Can you help me identify it? Lodge??
Starting the clean-up process today.

[Russell Ware]

The lid certainly looks like Lodge markings. The bottom looks like it has only a single notch, but there is no raised molder mark that I can see in the photos. That is interesting and odd. Can you confirm that there is only one notch, and are there any raised marks on either piece?

[Paul White]

Definitely only one notch on the bottom.
Since I am a rookie, can you explain the other marks you’d like me to look for?

[Russell Ware]

If you look at the inside of the lid, the size and other pattern markings are made into the surface of the cast iron. Those markings are made during molding of the sand, and they are on the pattern. The markings I mentioned previously rise up out from the iron, they are not depressions into the iron. That is what I refer to as a raised molder mark, and they are made by the person who created the mold after the pattern is removed from the sand mold.
You can see raised markings in this thread, scroll down to replies 15 and 17 or earlier in the thread:
http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/forum/index.php?topic=6143.0

[Paul White]

Thank you for that explanation.
I don’t remember seeing anything like that, but I will look again when I get back to the house. I cannot swear that there is nothing under the tab opposite the handle, but I am relatively sure there are no marks elsewhere.

[Paul White]

I am thinking it’s one of these??? https://www.etsy.com/listing/817189826/single-notch-lodge-8-chicken-fryerdeep?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

[Paul White]

If you look at the inside of the lid, the size and other pattern markings are made into the surface of the cast iron. Those markings are made during molding of the sand, and they are on the pattern. The markings I mentioned previously rise up out from the iron, they are not depressions into the iron. That is what I refer to as a raised molder mark, and they are made by the person who created the mold after the pattern is removed from the sand mold.
You can see raised markings in this thread, scroll down to replies 15 and 17 or earlier in the thread:
http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/forum/index.php?topic=6143.0

No, no other markings.

[Craig Allison]

If you look at the inside of the lid, the size and other pattern markings are made into the surface of the cast iron. Those markings are made during molding of the sand, and they are on the pattern. The markings I mentioned previously rise up out from the iron, they are not depressions into the iron. That is what I refer to as a raised molder mark, and they are made by the person who created the mold after the pattern is removed from the sand mold.
You can see raised markings in this thread, scroll down to replies 15 and 17 or earlier in the thread:
http://www.griswoldandwagner.com/forum/index.php?topic=6143.0

No, no other markings.

I would agree.
I didn't notice that it was a deep (chicken fryer) pan at first.

[Paul White]

First coat done.......

[Duke Gilleland]

Good piece of "one notch" Lodge. Clean it up and it will cook for another hundred years!

[Paul White]

After two coats of flax seed oil and one coat of olive oil..... looks really nice!

[Dwayne Henson]

Lodge

[Paul White]

Lodge

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson"

...... I really like that.... we're on the same page.

[Jim Glatthaar]

Yes, Paul, it is very satisfying once we start learning how to recognize pieces by different manufacturers.  Once I saw the first round of photos, I thought Lodge, but the lid looks to be newer than the chicken fryer.