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. 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. 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.