Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 3 Cast Iron Skillet

The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 3 has something specific to say that no other size in the line can say: it was never made with a heat ring. The seller who listed this piece described it as "with Heat Ring" — a misidentification. The Cast Iron Collector Forums are explicit on the point, and the smooth, flat base visible in the photographs confirms it. Catalog number 1053 N identifies this piece as a smooth-bottom No. 3, fourteenth mold pattern, produced somewhere in the span of 1924 to 1959 during which the No. 3 was made continuously in the only configuration it ever had. The SSC collection record corrects the seller's error and documents the piece as it actually is.