Favorite Piqua Ware No. 8A Skillet — Smiley / Miami Dual Logo
The No. 8 is where every Favorite Piqua Ware collection begins — the workhorse size, the most produced, the most familiar. This one carries something the standard No. 8A doesn't: the dual-logo configuration, with the Smiley cartouche above and the Miami diamond below, both cast on the same base. Acquired as a provenance-linked pair with the companion No. 7, it confirms that the dual marking crossed at least two sizes from the same foundry period. It also surfaces a detail the No. 7 alone couldn't reveal: the Miami diamond frame on this No. 8A is single-outline, while the No. 7's is double — a variation that raises questions the iron documents but doesn't yet answer.
Favorite Piqua Ware No. 7 Skillet — Smiley / Miami Dual Logo
Most Favorite Piqua Ware collectors know the Smiley logo. Fewer have held a piece that carries two marks — the Smiley cartouche above and the Miami diamond below, both cast into the same base, from the same foundry, on the same pour. This No. 7 is one of those pieces. The dual configuration documents something the single-logo specimens cannot: the moment where Favorite Stove & Range's parallel brand identities intersected, and the commercial logic that put two names on one skillet didn't fully resolve before the iron cooled.