The SSC collection is built around Ohio iron. This No. 8 is from Pennsylvania — and its presence here is deliberate. The "ERIE" arc on this base is Griswold at its earliest branded phase, before the spider mark, before the cross-and-circle logo that made the company the most collected cast iron brand in America. An ERIE-marked piece is not simply an early Griswold; it is a Griswold from the era before Griswold became Griswold. Placed alongside the CHW No. 8, the FPW No. 8A, and the pre-logo gate scar piece, it completes a No. 8 comparative record spanning four production contexts and roughly seventy years of American cast iron history.