History…

[Washblue]

Gifted by her grandmother, to my grandmother, as a wedding gift… in 1919…
We only know the chain of custody since their wedding…
It has a raised 2-G in the casting… and holds 6 qts up to the top flange about an inch below the top rim…
She gave it to us 50 - 60 years ago…
She called it her bean pot, but she cooked her white half runner snap beans in it…
Mom used it to cook white half runners on a 2 burner Coleman camp stove before moving up to a cast iron 2 burner LP stove, while camping…
It’s oiled and in the oven now, after a good washing… at 200°… will soon go up to 400°…
it has an appointment for the fireplace in a few days when the temperatures dive…

[Skip]

That CI Pot is so cool. What a keepsake for you.

[58limited]

Really cool pot! I have a modern version, I really like that style and use it for beans and stews.

[Mosca]

That is excellent. A 100+ year old piece of cookware still serving exactly as intended. You can’t improve on quality.

[CHNeal]

Just amazing! What a treasured piece of family history so few of us have!

[texastweeter]

I would suspect the 2-G is the workers number - shift. Old foundry used to pay per piece cast to the workers.

[gboss]

Lots of foundries still pay their furnace operators and pourers based on the amount that is produced.

[texastweeter]

gboss NERD! wait, I knew that too...

[Washblue]

I used to put soles on military boots, during high school summers… the faster I worked…. The more I was paid!

Some weeks I brought home $40!

[Michael_in_TX]

I love the texture on that.

[Washblue]

Gram told me it looked like that when she first saw it…
No way to tell its age, but I’d give anything if she’d have asked…

Back then, when you lived in a log house, laundered in wash pots at the spring and carry water buckets to the house, I don’t guess the history of a pot mattered much…

[Sid P]

That is so fricken’ cool! It looks like something from the Middle Ages…

[Washblue]

The patina has been there a long time…
And I’m careful to maintain it…

[Oak Smoke]

I can’t see any gate marks on it. If there are none it was most likely made after 1890-1900 time frame. It is beautiful, what a family treasure.

[texastweeter]

There is a gate mark right across the bottom.

[Oak Smoke]

As Roseann, Roseanna Dana would say “Never mind”. There’s no telling how old it is.

[Washblue]

Now you can see the gate mark is visible in all three photos thus far…

Im an old man… and my great-great grand mom had it…

Oak Smoke

[CaptainMike]

Wonderful heirloom! I'm still using my grandmother's CI skillet and I'm guessing it's 80 years old or so.

[Washblue]

CHNeal , I’ve got one other piece of CI, that I know has been in the family for 5 generations…

My great-great grandfather and great-grandfather used this mortar & pestle to crush ore to assay for gold…. Weighs 30 lbs…

A great uncle painted it and Dad didn’t want to remove the paint…

[Washblue]

That chair in the background was the folding chair back in the day…

Great-grandfather used it beside the fireplace and to ride in the wagon… being low, lowered the center of gravity so as to not fall out along the way…

[RichieB]

That's very nice and I'm sure a piece that has and will be in your family for generations.

[Finster]

Man. That is so cool...
all of my cast iron is first generation.
Hopefully it gets passed along, and still gets used a century or more from now...

[Washblue]

I began purchasing old Griswold about 15 years ago, because my Mom had hers and her Dad’s skillets. Of those, a few were, “Erie” and one slant logo #8.

I realized the slant logo was nice and began looking.

Since prices were very affordable then, I filled several sets for myself and kids & one set for a friend.

There were also no Dutch Ovens in the family. I remedied that too.

So, like you say, most of mine are first gen in the family, there is no time like the present to start the tradition

[tamidw]

So cool to have those pieces passed down from older generations.