Steve, I do not know an awful lot about any of this and am still learning and always will. Having said that, I know the least about bowls. I presumed it was a scotch bowl. To be sure it looked like the bowl at the top right on page 76 of the 2nd edition blue book. It had the bail, the ring on the side, and the rim on the bottom. What were these bowls and the scotch bowls used for anyway? That flea market lasts three days and today is the first day. If it is of any vital concern to be sure, I will go back and buy it. So you don't think Erie skillets had a gate mark even though one is pictured in the blue book? Well, if this is not an Erie, it ought to be, cause it sure looks and feels like one. Oh yea, I also wanted to say that one of the cast iron dealers there had several pieces and while I was there talking to him he got out his book and it was a copy of the first edition Griswold and Wagner. He opened it up there were the two pictures of the authors. He said, "one of these fellows is a real **shole". I asked him how he knew that and he said one of his friends knew very well and told him so. I asked him which one was it and he pointed to the one on the right
