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.
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 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.