Columbus Hollow Ware No. 12 Skillet
The No. 12 is the largest skillet Columbus Hollow Ware ever produced — and with its documentation, the SSC five-piece matched set is complete. It also delivers the final data point in the "S" mark investigation that began when the No. 8 was first photographed: present on No. 8, absent on No. 9, present on No. 10, absent on No. 11, present on No. 12. Even sizes carry it. Odd sizes don't. That pattern — confirmed across five consecutive pieces from a single provenance — is now in the published collector record for the first time
Columbus Hollow Ware No. 10 Skillet
The No. 10 is the pivot piece of the SSC Columbus Hollow Ware set — where the domestic cooking story gives way to large-scale provisioning, and where the "S" mark research takes its most significant turn. Present on the No. 8, absent on the No. 9, and confirmed again here on the No. 10, the subsidiary mark is clearly not a batch code or a uniform production identifier. It follows a size-selective pattern that only a five-piece matched set from a single provenance could reveal — and SSC is now on record with the comparative documentation to prove it.
Columbus Hollow Ware No. 11 Skillet
The No. 11 is a pan that makes a statement the moment you pick it up. At roughly 13 inches across the cooking surface, this is not an everyday skillet — it is a large-household pan, built for farmstead cooking and Sunday dinners for ten, and it survives in smaller numbers than any other size in the Columbus Hollow Ware line. This specimen is the second-largest piece in SSC's five-piece matched set, carries some of the crispest logo definition in the entire run, and stands as proof that "THE FAVORITE" was not a single-size curiosity but a complete line built for the full spectrum of American domestic life.
Columbus Hollow Ware No. 9 Skillet
The No. 9 is the in-between size — larger than the workhorse No. 8, smaller than the large-format No. 10, and measurably less common in collector circulation today. This Columbus Hollow Ware specimen arrived as part of a five-piece matched set and carries a detail of genuine documentary significance: unlike the No. 8 from the same set, this piece bears no subsidiary "S" mark below the logo arc. Two skillets, same foundry, same era, same provenance — and one marking difference that the SSC collection is now on record to document.
Columbus Hollow Ware No. 8 Skillet
One of the rarest marks in American cast iron — "THE FAVORITE" in arched capitals, cast inside the walls of the Ohio State Penitentiary. This Columbus Hollow Ware No. 8 skillet is part of a five-piece matched set acquired by SSC in 2026, representing one of the most comprehensive surviving collections of a foundry that operated for only twenty years and left no catalog, no corporate records, and no trace beyond the iron itself.