Wagner Ware Sidney ‑O‑ Nickel-Plated Double Skillet
Two words stop collectors in their tracks: PATENT PENDING. Most Wagner 1401-C double skillets carry issued patent numbers. This one doesn't — it was made while the application was still in Washington. Add a pristine original nickel cooking surface that has never been stripped, and the small round handle hole that confirms the early date independently. This is what the earliest Wagner double skillet looked like. Very few survived to tell that story in this condition.
“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 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 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.