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Offline Robert Danelski

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Erie and interesting
« on: December 23, 2013, 07:25:31 PM »
I picked up this #10 skillet listed as "unmarked" on ebay. Just for cooking breakfast at the cabin. After the second coat of HD easy off and two days of cleaning some letters began to show through. It also revealed a repair at the connection of the handle. Then I found Roy Meadows article on Erie. looks like the scooped handle he spoke of.  I'm going with the glass is half full, it seems sound now and the cooking surface is smooth,smooth. and only45 bucks.Thanks for listening
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Offline Cheryl Watson

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2013, 09:52:41 PM »
Hello Robert, and welcome to WAGS! :)

Can you post a pic that shows the entire bottom of the skillet, Including the Handle?
And, a picture of the handle repair area pleezz...? :) :)
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Offline Robert Danelski

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2013, 08:39:39 AM »
yep, merry christmas
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Offline Will Person

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2013, 03:53:21 PM »
It is a copy of an ERIE skillet.  For a user you did fine.   Cook away.
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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2013, 11:37:46 PM »
I was thinking the same thing too.
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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2013, 11:55:12 PM »
I've never seen a copy up close and personal but it is interesting how some parts of the copy are pretty good.  The handle stands out right away as weird but I was wondering if Dwayne or Will could add a little more analysis so I can "see" what they see.  Thanks fellas!
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Offline Cheryl Watson

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2013, 02:08:49 AM »
Hello David, how the heck are ya!!???  Longtime no see... :)

Now I'm not the fellas.. ::) but.... :D

1.  The shallow imprint of the "ERIE" is the first clue.
2.  While the handle looks 1st Series... look at first pic in Reply #2 and notice the less than symetrical handle (left side)
3.  Pics 2 and 3 in Reply 2.... poorly ground gate, lots of slag hanging on.  Would not categorize as repair, just amatuerish gate/grinding.
4.  Overall lack of definition in and around the heat ring.
5.  Air Pockets in the casting (holes)....
6.  Shallowness of number on top of handle
7.  Poor/no defined other  markings on skillet bottom....

just to name a few.... ;)  JMO.....

PS... I STILL do not have a #11......... >:(
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Offline Roger Barfield

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2013, 09:39:09 AM »
All the things Cheryl said and also the Erie skillets that series didn't have the size marked on the top of the handle if I remember correctly.  This was probably a copy made by another foundry using an Erie skillet for the pattern.
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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2013, 04:51:35 PM »
Thanks Cheryl and Roger!  My eyes saw lots of that last night but I've only ever held 6 or 7 ERIE pans in my hands in my whole life so I wouldn't go wading in without a few cast iron  "lifeguards"!  I just learned a lot once again from you all!  And I know a little more about what I'm starting to really know.  Oh and definitely no numbers on the top of ERIE handles which was the first thing I spotted right behind the "ghost" ERIE.
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Offline Cheryl Watson

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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2013, 04:59:37 PM »
Heck I was so concentrated on the bottom, never stopped to think in depth about the top of the handle, no number....... :-[  well that and the lateness of the hour....... ::)
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Re: Erie and interesting
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2013, 06:53:36 PM »
Robert,

Thanks for showing us this interesting pan.  Enjoy the bacon and eggs at the cabin!

Dave
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