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Offline Rick Gilley

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June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« on: June 24, 2010, 02:18:01 PM »
Well since today is my birthday and it was to early to eat cake I decided to go to the cast iron junkyard for my weekly excursion to look for forgotten treasures. I got there about 30 minutes before they opened, and the owner came out and let me in the gate. So I had 30 minutes to look without anyone else being there. I found a few skillets, a #7 Griswold big logo, some Wagners, some old Red Mountain BSR's and a piece that looks like a Shepard piece, but found that the darn piece was cracked when I got home. I also picked up an old cast iron pedestal sink for my cabin. I rounded one of the corners and spied a gorgeous little stove sitting there. When I got to it, it was a Carolina Stove made by Glascock Stove company in Greensboro, and it had the original stove eye lifter with it, now how cool is that?  I got a price on it, and the owner said, I got a Glascock dutch oven in one of the buildings. He showed me a gorgeous Glascock #11 spider with the lid. I told him that I will buy every Glascock piece he gets his hands on, just to save them for me. He said he bought this Glascock oven from an older man who said it sat on his grandmas fireplace since he was a little boy. He said, that he didn't remember his grandma ever cooking in it, it just sat on the fireplace.








Glascock Spider





Glascock Stove






And one of those spiders I bought at the auction last Saturday is a dead ringer for this Glascock piece,even to how the lettering was spaced.......but its a size #12.
« Last Edit: June 24, 2010, 02:55:54 PM by poppop »

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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 04:47:05 PM »
All that Glascock stuff!!!!!

Oh,  that water kettle I am pretty sure is Lodge.   Look at the Lodge pages and take a look at the kettles.   I have one just like it.


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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 07:53:29 PM »
Nice haul Rick!!!!!  Man I wish I had a place like that around here!!!

Looks like you are into the Glascock cast iron now  :o

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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 08:11:19 PM »
Hi Rick very nice haul as usual!  You know I have been watching you go to this junkyard time and time agian and I sit back and wonder what the heck it looks like... to help me out next time your there take a panoramic picture of it… it would be interesting to see it and put a visual to it… you can leave any landmarks or names out of it so I can’t come looking for it… Oh wait in your North Carolina.. I can’t afford the flight.. ;D

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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 08:52:55 PM »
I love that stove lid lifter!!  That one would make a nice addition to my collection (which is in a box somewhere around this place  :-/).

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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2010, 09:29:12 PM »
Both of the Glascocks, (the one from Saturday and the one from today) are headed to the big state of Texas.....I sorta kinda thinking of redoing the stove..but really don't have a good place to display it. I might would part with it, it looks like it can come apart real easily for shipping.
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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2010, 09:38:26 PM »
Texas, you say... somebody musta dug deep into his saddlebags. ;)
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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2010, 11:06:52 PM »
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Texas, you say... somebody musta dug deep into his saddlebags. ;)

Sandy, either my saddle bags just got lighter or my horse just got taller, one of the two ;D
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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2010, 11:56:18 PM »
I'm glad you got them Roger. :)  Other than what's on the foundry page, I've never seen Glascock iron.  I hope you'll post pictures when you get them all dolled up.
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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2010, 06:26:10 PM »
Does that bottom gate marked skillet with the reinforcing pad handle have any ghostmarks on the bottom?
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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2010, 10:26:16 PM »
I am not sure Dwayne...I hadn't cleaned it yet.

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Re: June 24 2010 trip to the cast iron junkyard
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2010, 08:21:56 AM »
Very nice Rick. I really like the stove. I have restored on old stove and shipped it to California. I really enjoyed having it in the house for a little while.