Unknown Wapakoneta Foundry No. 258 Camp Waffle Iron

Before Wapak Hollow Ware. Before Ahrens and Arnold. Before the Indian Head logo. In 1858, an unnamed foundry in Wapakoneta, Ohio cast this diamond-pattern camp waffle iron — pushing the town's documented cast iron heritage back forty-five years before the foundry that put "Wapak" on the collecting map.