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.