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Offline Chuck Rogers

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Oval Roaster ID
« on: March 10, 2009, 11:58:53 PM »
Not much to go on. This is the only pic I have. Any help would be great.
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 11:14:59 AM »
ANy markings?
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2009, 03:56:51 PM »
Yeah, I also thought it looked like a smooth top Griswold but the inside and bottom should be marked.
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 12:05:53 AM »
Chuck,  if it is a Griswold lid,  it is marked,  just on the inside.  Griswold made 3 different lids,  all marked on the top different.   What do #5's go for??  I think $350-400??  #7's I think go over $500???


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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 12:18:31 AM »
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Chuck,  if it is a Griswold lid,  it is marked,  just on the inside.  Griswold made 3 different lids,  all marked on the top different.   What do #5's go for??  I think $350-400??  #7's I think go over $500???


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They have not been bringing that much at all Will. I watch them pretty close. An unmarked 5 oval Griswold, if thats what that is, is worth about 200 maybe even less, not if its full marked, more, but this one is plain jane with no last name and no trivet, and the 7, a tad more.
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2009, 08:56:27 PM »
Turns out this piece was a #3 Griswold oval roaster. It is now in my electro tank. The wife grabbed this one up for me, while I went off to 2 other auctions. That woman has all the luck.  ;D
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2009, 11:06:16 PM »
Unfortunatley no trivet. I'll have to find one to complete it. Unless someone here can hook me up with one?
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Offline Chuck Rogers

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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2009, 12:22:22 AM »
Now that this piece is cleaned, I can see that it does not say ERIE on the bottom. The only markings are " 3 GRISWOLD (Slant) 2627, and the inside of the lid is marked 2628" Is this a piece made after wagner bought out griswold, or one of the few that just wasn't marked ERIE. Any Opinions?
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2009, 02:06:28 AM »
Those are Griswold pieces made in Erie, Pa. To my knowledge, Wagner did not continue making the number 3, 5, 7, and 9 Griswold oval roasters, probably because Wagner already had oval roasters out the ying yang. While Griswold had the 3, 5, 7, and 9 oval roasters, Wagner had the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, so why would Wagner need another four more variations of the oval roasters? Thats my belief anyway, and I have never seen an oval roaster that Wagner made, from a modified Griswold pattern, has anybody else?
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2009, 09:52:55 PM »
You've seen the before, now here's the after.
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2009, 09:53:14 PM »
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2009, 09:53:41 PM »
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2009, 11:11:38 PM »
I don't like Chuck Rogers, no Sir, I just don't like him.  ;D Thats a nice piece Chuck.  ;)

NOW, something else here too. We were talking about pieces, made by Griswold, at the Griswold Foundry in Erie, Pa, that DID NOT have "Erie, Pa" on them, there are not many at all. BUT, this piece right here was not mentioned, so Chuck, you got a piece of trivia there as well, its marked "Griswold" but, does not have "Erie, Pa." on it.

Now of course there are plenty very early pieces that do not have "Erie, Pa." on them, but, they were not marked Griswold either, like "ERIE" for instance.
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2009, 11:34:20 PM »
I guess we have to call in the cast iron guru's on this one. Would be nice to know for sure. As far as not liking me? Come on now. I have been in a dry spell for good CI latley. I left the wife at this auction, and went off to 2 other auctions, and told her to do her best on the price. She gives me a call later on and asked if $65 was too much to pay. I asked her where she was hiding the gun, cause I didn't see her with one.  ;D This is the same woman who payed $25 for a #2 Griswold skillet, and was worried I would get mad. The best thing I got this weekend was a #7 and #9 large logo Griswold skillets for $27.00 .

P.S. No Perry, you can't borrow her to go to the auctions for you.  ;D  :P
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Re: Oval Roaster ID
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2009, 12:43:25 AM »
Chuck, No cast iron guru here, but your oval roaster is absolutely an authentic Griswold piece and was made long before Wagner and Griswold came under the same company. It is the plainest of the oval roasters in that it has no markings on the outside of the lid, but these are nice roasters to collect or to use. Nice find.
Harry
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