BilletHead Posted July 16, 2020 Author Posted July 16, 2020 21 minutes ago, semble said: I have a hammered lid, I think size 8. Not sure what brand. I'll dig it out tonight and get a look at it. Thank you so much for checking that out! "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 17, 2020 Author Posted July 17, 2020 30 minutes ago, semble said: Here's what I've got. Semble, Thanks for digging this out but it is a Chicago Hardware Foundry piece. If you don't find a bottom you will make someone like me happy if they find you needing a lid. That is a good collectible lid. Thanks again man. You had me really excited, I still am! semble 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
semble Posted July 17, 2020 Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, BilletHead said: Semble, Thanks for digging this out but it is a Chicago Hardware Foundry piece. If you don't find a bottom you will make someone like me happy if they find you needing a lid. That is a good collectible lid. Thanks again man. You had me really excited, I still am! No problem. To be honest, I had forgotten I had it. Good luck finding your lid! BilletHead 1
BilletHead Posted July 19, 2023 Author Posted July 19, 2023 Success! Whoop, Whoop! Took me three years to the day to find my lid. This fine hammered lodge stuff does not come up for sale very often and when it does it can be very expensive, but they are still out there. Found the skillet and got it for under 30 bucks. I was elated. Got it restored and right away Pat laid claim to it with the remark this is mine. She uses it for everything best deep skillet Imo we have ever found. Then the search for the lid began. I was aware I might have to pay up and would of if it did not break the bank. I reached out here to you all, searched on the inter webs and made phone calls to places that deal with cast iron cookware. Those people just told me good luck and you may never find it. Well as we browsed an antique store / flea market / booth type place that we frequent not 30 miles from the house. Pat looked down on the floor and said hey isn't lid hammered? I picked it up and got the chills. Quickly looked at the price tag, 14.95! Got to the counter to Pay and the owner said you still have some credit here. (Sold him some skillets) Paid for it from that. Some surface rust and top if the handle had from use the hammered pattern about polished off. I was pretty sure it was a match and arriving home it was spot on! The treasure went right into the e tank then cleaned and restored. Persistence paid off. Circa from the 1940s. pvspmo, Ham, kjackson and 5 others 8 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Terrierman Posted July 19, 2023 Posted July 19, 2023 I had a feeling when I opened this up there was good news. I'm a stable genius. BilletHead and grizwilson 1 1
pvspmo Posted July 20, 2023 Posted July 20, 2023 On 7/16/2020 at 6:51 PM, semble said: Here's what I've got. I realize this is 3 years old but is there any chance this is still available? I have a hammered Chicago Hardware skillet that this would look great on!
BilletHead Posted July 20, 2023 Author Posted July 20, 2023 6 hours ago, pvspmo said: I realize this is 3 years old but is there any chance this is still available? I have a hammered Chicago Hardware skillet that this would look great on! Hope it is for you pvspmo. If he doesn't I will look through my extra stash. Ham and pvspmo 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
pvspmo Posted July 21, 2023 Posted July 21, 2023 17 hours ago, BilletHead said: Hope it is for you pvspmo. If he doesn't I will look through my extra stash. That would be great! Never knew I needed/wanted one until I saw that pic... I'm not sure how I missed this post back then, I remember reading it 3 years ago. It is funny how the cast iron bug sneaks into your blood. I went from just using them to looking at every piece I see now grizwilson 1
BilletHead Posted July 21, 2023 Author Posted July 21, 2023 3 hours ago, pvspmo said: That would be great! Never knew I needed/wanted one until I saw that pic... I'm not sure how I missed this post back then, I remember reading it 3 years ago. It is funny how the cast iron bug sneaks into your blood. I went from just using them to looking at every piece I see now That is how I started picking up just about anything learning to restore and just because I wanted it. Not so much now. It has to be cheap enough I can clean it up and make a few bucks on it. If it is a piece, I want to keep I will pay a bit more. Right now, it's a wonder our house hasn't sunk into the ground from all I have right now. The lid I have is a Chicago foundry hammered and it's nice but for a dutch oven or lipless chicken fryer. grizwilson 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
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