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hey folks I just want to welcome you
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back to Mr cast iron and today what
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we're going to talk about is a little
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bit of vintage cast iron and some of the
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uh identification marks that used to try
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to identific identify a piece of cast
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iron so here's uh my Three Notch Lodge
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you've seen this in many videos here
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it's got the uh distinguished teardrop
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handle on it and of course it has one
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two three notches in it and it was made
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USA it's a number eight and you can see
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that the teardrop handle is very
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distinctive for a Lodge cast iron
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skillet this one right here basically is
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about somewhere in the
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1960s range so it's it's fairly old too
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now recently I acquired this Skillet and
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it still needs to be stripped and
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seasoned but this is a vintage Martin
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Stove and Range with the uh signature
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hamburger logo here this looks like a
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hamburger bun and on the top here
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underneath all this crud uh and carbon
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buildup that I've got to strip and clean
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it says Martin across the top and Stove
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and Range in the middle as the hamburger
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um Patty and then the bottom bun says
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Florence Alabama so you can see that
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it's distinguished by the hamburger logo
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another distinguishing factor is kind of
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the the diamond shaped handle
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uh but also it has this
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recessed uh looks like a teardrop handle
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which would kind of make you want to at
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first think when you looked at it from
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the top side that this could possibly be
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a lodge but after further inspection you
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can tell that it's definitely not a
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lodge it's a Martin Stove and Range and
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with that recessed handle now also I
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recently acquired another Skillet and
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it's it's got quite a bit of rust and
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carbon buildup on it also so I've got to
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get it stripped down it's slick slick
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bottom like all three of these and they
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machined cast iron back in those days
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the older uh cast iron skillets were
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machined like this and they wasn't rough
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like your modern-day cast iron is but
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when I looked at this skillet from first
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glance at it when I first bought these I
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thought well this is a number nine
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uh Lodge cast iron with two por spouts
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there's a number nine distinguished Mark
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right here on the handle and so when I
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flipped it over I thought okay well
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there's one single Notch right here at
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12:00 and there's no other notches on
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the heat ring just that one notch so I
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thought well this is an unmarked single
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Notch Lodge cast iron skillet so I got
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to look in a little closer and as I
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looked I could see the identifying
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identical to the Martin Stove and
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Range um Skillet here with the logo on
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it and so this handle gave it away that
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this was actually a single Notch
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unmarked Martin Stove and Range now the
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thing about these two Skillets are
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Martin Stove and Range was actually
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created or they actually uh man
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manufactured cast iron from
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1917 to somewhere in the 1950s and then
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they basically quit making cast iron
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they continued to make stoves but they
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they discontinued doing cast iron
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skillets and stuff like that so I know
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that these two Skillets range anywhere
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1917 to somewhere in the 1950 ranges but
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anyway I wanted to point this out to you
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because this really surprised me with
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this number nine I haven't ever seen one
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like this unmarked other than like a
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lodge or something like that but not
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with this distinguishing handle like a
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Martin stove and rain so anyway I just
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wanted to share that with you guys about
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vintage cast iron it's it's awesome to
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collect it's fun to try to identify and
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some of these things you just can't
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really determine exactly how old they
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are but you know the range roughly that
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what they were created and so it's
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pretty exciting I'm looking forward to
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getting my system set back up get them
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stripped down and reasoned and once we
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do we're going to show those to you too
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as well so you guys have a great day now
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it's Mike and Mrs cast iron over here
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we'll talk to you later take care
