Columbus Hollow Ware Three-Legged Cauldron Kettle
Columbus Hollow Ware made more than skillets — and this three-legged cauldron kettle is the proof. With its rounded base, integral cast iron leg feet, and iron wire bail, this is an open-fire vessel built for the large-batch work that belonged at the hearth: rendering lard, boiling apple butter, the kind of sustained cooking that no stovetop skillet could accommodate. It is the first non-skillet Columbus Hollow Ware piece in the SSC collection, and it carries "THE FAVORITE" arched across its base exterior just as confidently as any skillet in the line — confirming that the foundry's brand identity extended across every vessel form it produced.
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.