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” 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.