Columbus Hollow Ware No. 9 Skillet
Ohio Foundry Corridor, Pre-1905 Collection, Columbus Hollow Ware, Cast Iron Skillets, Museum Collection Steve Thaman Ohio Foundry Corridor, Pre-1905 Collection, Columbus Hollow Ware, Cast Iron Skillets, Museum Collection Steve Thaman

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.

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