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“WAGNER” Sidney, O. No. 8 Round Griddle
Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Griddles, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/9/26 Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Griddles, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/9/26

“WAGNER” Sidney, O. No. 8 Round Griddle

The griddle is the most honest tool in the kitchen — all surface, no pretense. This one carries the early "WAGNER" mark with quotation marks, dating it to the era when the Wagner brothers ran the Sidney foundry themselves. A century later, the iron is still flat, still smooth, still ready.

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“WAGNER” Sidney, O. No. 9 Nickel-Plated Skillet
Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Skillets, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/9/26 Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Skillets, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/9/26

“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.

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Wagner No. 0 Skillet — Arc Logo
Wagner Specialty & Variants, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/5/26 Wagner Specialty & Variants, Museum Collection Steve Thaman 3/5/26

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.

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