Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 5 Cast Iron Skillet

The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 5, catalog number 1055 H, is the heat-ring representative of this size in the SSC complete skillet set — cast in the decade between the adoption of Wagner's catalog numbering system in 1924 and the smooth-bottom transition of approximately 1935. At 8 inches across the top rim it is compact, practical, and domestic in character: the smallest size in the standard line to carry both the heat ring and the stylized logo in the catalog-number era. Pattern letter H documents eight generations of mold production for the No. 5 within that window, a quiet record of sustained household demand for a skillet that kept being made because it kept being needed.