Wagner Ware — Miniature Cast Iron Skillet No. 1050
The Wagner Manufacturing Company of Sidney, Ohio produced this 3½-inch miniature skillet — catalog number 1050, pattern letter D — as a novelty item, advertising premium, and salesman's sample. Every feature of a full-size Wagner skillet is present in miniature: the oval logo, the pour spouts, the teardrop hanging hole, and the smooth cooking surface. The stylized W logo dates this piece to approximately the 1950s–1960s. Acquired from eBay seller floodgatesofheaven, August 2025.
National / Wagner Ware Sidney –O– Dual Logo No. 8 Cast Iron Skillet #1358
Wagner's economy brand meets Wagner's premium logo on a single piece of iron. This National No. 8 skillet carries the dual-logo configuration — "NATIONAL" arced above the centered stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- mark — documenting Wagner's multi-brand strategy from the same Sidney, Ohio foundry.
Wagner Ware Sidney –O– No. 14 Cast Iron Skillet #1064
The largest single-handled skillet Wagner ever produced. This No. 14, catalog #1064, crowns the SSC's complete Wagner Sidney-O skillet set spanning No. 0 through No. 14 — preserved in bare iron for permanent museum display.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Round Griddle No. 1109 D
The round griddle is cast iron at its most fundamental — a flat surface over fire. Wagner's 1109 D carries the stylized logo from the company's peak era, and pairs with an early-mark No. 8 to show that the best designs don't change. Only the trademark evolves. The iron stays the same.
“WAGNER” Sidney, O. No. 8 Round Griddle
The griddle is the most honest tool in the kitchen — all surface, no pretense. This one carries the early "WAGNER" mark with quotation marks, dating it to the era when the Wagner brothers ran the Sidney foundry themselves. A century later, the iron is still flat, still smooth, still ready.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Bacon and Egg Breakfast Skillet
Everyone has dealt with bacon grease flooding into eggs. Wagner's answer was to cast the solution into the iron — a square divided pan with separate compartments for bacon and eggs, one burner, one wash. The most immediately charming piece in the SSC collection.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 3 Nickel-Plated Skillet
Most nickel-plated Wagners survive with sixty or seventy percent of their plating. This No. 3 retains ninety percent or more. Nearly perfect nickel patina on a piece this old is genuinely unusual — and at $19.95, it slipped through the cracks because nobody was looking for a little No. 3
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 7 Cast Iron Skillet
Everyone has a Wagner No. 8. The No. 7 is the size that a knowledgeable cook chose on purpose — a 9¼-inch sauté skillet that heats faster, concentrates fond better, and handles with one hand. It wasn't the best seller. It was the better skillet.
“WAGNER” Sidney, O. No. 9 Nickel-Plated Skillet
The quotation marks around "WAGNER" tell you this is early Sidney iron — before the stylized logo, before the Randall sale, from the era when the Wagner brothers ran the foundry themselves. The warm golden-silver nickel patina tells you every owner for a century knew to leave it alone.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 4 Nickel-Plated Skillet
Not every Wagner left Sidney looking the same. This No. 4 carried the premium option — factory nickel plating that turned a workhorse skillet into a showpiece. A century later, the plating survives because every owner had the wisdom to leave it alone. SSC will continue that tradition.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 7 Cast Iron Saucepan
The Archival Black protocol isn't "never touch." It's "know when to touch and when not to." This Wagner Ware No. 7 saucepan was restored by SSC because restoration served the piece — the same philosophy that keeps the 1863 Shinnick kettle untouched.
Wagner Ware No. 3 Skillet — Pie Logo, Nickel Plated
Wagner's most collected trademark on its most premium finish — a No. 3 pie logo skillet with nickel plating from Sidney, Ohio. The first pie logo and first nickel-plated specimen in the SSC collection, representing the summit of Wagner Manufacturing's production art.
Wagner Ware No. 0 Skillet — Stylized Logo
The third Wagner No. 0 variant in the SSC collection — a stylized logo smooth-bottom specimen from Wagner's golden age. Together with the arc logo No. 0 and the complete Sidney-O set specimen, SSC now documents the No. 0 skillet across four decades of Wagner production.
Wagner No. 0 Skillet — Arc Logo
The oldest Wagner in the SSC collection — a No. 0 skillet carrying the arc logo, Wagner Manufacturing's earliest trademark from the 1890s–1900s. This second No. 0 marking variant documents Wagner's foundational era alongside the stylized logo specimen from the complete Sidney-O set.
Wagner Ware Tea Kettle — WAGNER / SIDNEY / O Lid Mark
This Wagner Ware tea kettle carries the early-period WAGNER / SIDNEY / O lid mark — without the WARE suffix or MADE IN USA designation — placing it in the c. 1915–1920s production window. Original brass finial intact, wire bail with coiled heat guard complete, heat ring sound. A complete, fully original Wagner specialty hollow ware piece documented in the SSC Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection.