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**bmillin** · May 21, 2023, 11:38 AM

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**58limited** · July 25, 2023, 05:26 PM

One of the pots that Panhead John gave to me. This pot is in good shape, just needed a cleaning and reseasoning in the oven. It is big! Not the biggest that I have but the second biggest. It is 6" deep, 13" top inside diameter, 11" bottom inside diameter. The only marking are: on the bottom of the pot is the number '12' and on the underside of the lid (dimples, no spikes) is 'No. 12' and right under that is '13 1/2 IN'

Anyone have an idea of the manufacturer? Calling Spinaker LOL. I have a few more pics I can post if needed.

The other large pot (no lid) that I got from PJ is at the machine shop getting bead blasted - hell of a lot easier than electrolysis or hand sanding (I know the machinist, he won't charge me much). This pot is slightly different in that it will not fit into the pot above (but vice versa the above pot fits inside it although that could be from all of the caked on burned on food on the outside - its quite thick). The lid fits them both. When it comes back from the machine shop I'll post the measurements and markings, if any.

Here they are rust and all: two large pots, a lid and a smaller bean pot. The lid is on the other pot which is rusty inside.

**58limited** · July 29, 2023, 11:22 AM

Breaking in the BSR Red Mountain. That is one pound of homemade bacon cut for 1" pieces - doesn't look like much in that big pot, huh?

**58limited** · August 19, 2023, 02:53 PM

Spinaker I went to the machine shop today but the cast iron wasn't finished: blasting machine broke and parts just came in so it will be another week or two. I took a couple of pictures though - poor lighting. The big Dutch oven is, I think, another BSR No.12 - it would not stack into the other one because of all of the caked on food and grease on the outside. I found a BSR Century No. 12 lid on ebay and bought it so now I have a lid for each Dutch oven.

The small "bean pot" is marked ' 8 ' on the bottom, it has three short legs and the bottom is rounded. No lid. Can you ID this?

Sitting inside the No.12 Dutch oven

**Spinaker** · August 27, 2023, 09:42 AM

I think it might be an old Erie dutch oven. If it is, you have a real gem there. From what I can tell, the single loop flange with the wire handle is the trademark I am looking at. That being said, can you take a CLEAR picture of the side of the dutch. There should be a ring going around the pot, at the half way point.

Also, if you could get a clear picture of the bottom, that would help as well. If I could see the "8" that would be very helpful. Volrath also made one similar to this, I am trying to see which one it is.

**58limited** · September 11, 2023, 12:42 PM

Spinaker

Here are more pictures of the small Dutch oven/bean pot.

**58limited** · September 24, 2023, 04:20 PM

All three cleaned, seasoned, and in use. I only had one Dutch oven lid but I found another on ebay and made a lowball offer which was accepted. Now I'm looking for a lid for the bean pot - not a necessity but I like to have a lid for simmering.

All of this is Birmingham Stove and Range (BSR) cast iron, a budget brand from the South that I would put up against any other cast iron manufacturer - past or present. Thanks to Panhead John for giving these to me. I will be using them often. And thanks to Spinaker for the I.D. and history on these.

Two #12 Dutch ovens and one #8 Franklin pot, often called a bean pot.

**SheilaAnn** · September 24, 2023, 06:50 PM

58limited and Spinaker here is “lil bean”

the number at the bottom is 1265
no lid

**58limited** · September 25, 2023, 04:59 PM

An interesting piece from Birmingham Stove and Range that I found on ebay. I looked up the history of BSR and it is interesting. When they closed Lodge got the rights to make several items including the Sportsman's Grill.

This is the Handy Dan cornbread pan. Here is an excerpt from https://southerncastiron.com/forgott...m-stove-range/

"The company also encouraged its employees to be innovative. If they had an idea for a new product, they could come into the foundry on the weekends to work on it*.....In the 1980s, at the suggestion of another BS&R employee, Frank Martin, Hugh Rushing, vice president of marketing for Birmingham Stove & Range, created Frank’s Handy Dan Cornstick Pan. Hugh and Frank noticed that it was almost impossible to put a traditional cornstick pan in the oven without sticking your thumb in the batter. “They took the handle of another pan, welded it to the side of a cornstick pan, and ground it off,” Dwayne explains. “That’s the best pan they ever made.” Sadly, the foundry would cease production before the end of the decade, and Frank’s Handy Dan Cornstick Pan would be made for only a few years. Today the pan is a rare find among collectors."

*This company policy also led to the famous "Million-Dollar Skillet" cornbread wedge pan:

**58limited** · September 25, 2023, 07:15 PM

It works! I ate two before the picture was taken. Hatch chili and bacon cornbread sticks.

**barelfly** · October 20, 2023, 09:56 AM

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**Spinaker** · March 6, 2024, 10:11 AM

I went diving into my friends barn and look what I found! An old Griswold 3 burner stove! All cast iron. It is in pretty good shape, I just need to take it apart and get her cleaned up. I have been looking for one of these for a long time.

More to come as I get into the cleaning phase. What a great find and the price was right......FREE!!!!! Plus, it still has the original porcelain handles than will clean up really nice! One of the cast iron brackets that hold the manifold is broken, but I think I can repair that at the shop without too much of a problem. What a find.