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Darkstar

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Let's play the "who made it" game
« on: January 25, 2009, 02:49:54 AM »
Hi all,

I work part time (more often now that it's my only job) for a catering company.  When we do buffet style service we often use cast iron skillets as serving dishes for pasta.  They take a sterno flame well and don't heat up too badly to burn the contents if we keep them up on bricks.  Anywho I never paid that much attention to them and figured we used cheap Chinese crap.  Tonight we had four stacked up on top of each other and I took a look.   All four were 14" skillets so they were good sized.  Three I could easily peg for old Lodge with the 3 breaks in the heat ring and a big 14 on them (one said made in the USA).

Here's the one I couldn't ID.  Now I apologize in advance for the pictures but my Blackberry phone camera only does so well and has no macro.








Those are my shoes in the pour spout picture.  I didn't want to distract you with me in a tuxedo so I just took the shot of my shoes.  ::)

The picture of the bottom is not good enough to see if it had bottom markings and honestly I don't remember.  I do know it fit size-wise with the 14 Lodge SK's but the handle and helper handle is definitely different.

What'zit?
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Offline Chris Stairs

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Re:  Let's play the "who made it" game
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2009, 02:54:05 AM »
That one is a BS&R. You can spot them by the hanging hole in the helper handle.
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Re:  Let's play the "who made it" game
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 03:10:11 AM »
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That one is a BS&R. You can spot them by the hanging hole in the helper handle.

Hooray!  My gut feeling was correct!  Now I can go to bed happy.  (or feeling a wee bit smarter)

I'm impressed there are WAGGERS up at this hour of the night.  Time for bed and CI dreams.
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Re:  Let's play the "who made it" game
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2009, 01:45:10 PM »
As soon as I was the assist handle,  BS&R!!!


Will 8-)
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Re:  Let's play the "who made it" game
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2009, 02:02:12 PM »
Be careful, there are some out there with that same assist tab that aren't BSR.   The best way to tell is the V shape of the bottom of the handle.

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Re:  Let's play the "who made it" game
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2009, 04:16:47 PM »
Thats the skillet that got me looking for info about BS&R. Roger told me it was probably a Century, but due to lack of information it would probably go unnamed. The BS&R #12 also has the asist tab.
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