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Favorite Piqua Ware No. 7 Skillet — Smiley / Miami Dual Logo
Ohio Foundry Corridor, Favorite Piqua Ware, Cast Iron Skillets, Museum Collection, Dual Logo Series Steve Thaman 2/20/26 Ohio Foundry Corridor, Favorite Piqua Ware, Cast Iron Skillets, Museum Collection, Dual Logo Series Steve Thaman 2/20/26

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.

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