Wagner No. 8 Gypsy Bean Pot
Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, SSC Museum Collection, SSC Restoration, Bean Pots & Kettles, Museum Collection, Ohio Cast Iron, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Wagner Ware, Sidney Ohio, Pre-1959 Cast Iron, Wagner Specialty & Variants Steve Thaman Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, SSC Museum Collection, SSC Restoration, Bean Pots & Kettles, Museum Collection, Ohio Cast Iron, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Wagner Ware, Sidney Ohio, Pre-1959 Cast Iron, Wagner Specialty & Variants Steve Thaman

Wagner No. 8 Gypsy Bean Pot

A heavily rusted Wagner No. 8 bean pot, restored via electrolysis, carries a plain arched WAGNER mark with no Sidney -O- text at all. That earliest Wagner logo style dates the piece to roughly 1891-1910, decades before the stylized logo most collectors know. Includes sourced maker history and an honest look at the gypsy kettle label.

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Wagner Cast Iron Bean PotStove Ring Kettle — Size 8
Wagner Specialty & Variants, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Wagner Ware, Pre-1905 Collection, SSC Museum Collection Steve Thaman Wagner Specialty & Variants, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Wagner Ware, Pre-1905 Collection, SSC Museum Collection Steve Thaman

Wagner Cast Iron Bean PotStove Ring Kettle — Size 8

A Wagner No. 8 cast iron bean pot from the early arc mark period — before WAGNER WARE, before Sidney-O, before catalog numbers. The arc WAGNER mark with decorative flourishes, three cast leg feet, original wire bail handle, and the stove ring flange that locked it into a wood or coal stove eye for the long slow cook that fed American families in the foundry's earliest years. The oldest Wagner mark configuration in the SSC collection.

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