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.