Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 2 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 2 is one of the hardest finds in the complete set — genuinely rare in the market in any condition, produced in smaller numbers over a shorter window than any size above it. This example carries the stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- logo at 12 o'clock and the size numeral '2' at 6 o'clock, with no catalog number anywhere on the base. This is the documented standard configuration: the only known No. 2 with a four-digit catalog number is the pie logo version. A size-number-only No. 2 with the stylized logo dates to c. 1922–1924 — after the iconic looped W was introduced and before or at the moment the catalog numbering system was being established across the line. It is the smallest skillet in the standard Wagner line with a stylized logo, smooth-bottomed as it always was, from the earliest documented era of the most famous American cast iron mark.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 7 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 7 in the SSC collection is the oldest-marked piece in the complete skillet set, and its age is written plainly on its base. The logo is not the iconic stylized looped W. It is an earlier mark — WAGNER in an arc above straight-lettered WARE, SIDNEY, and -O- — the Arc/Straight/Straight configuration produced during the transitional 1920s period after Wagner began marketing its products as "Wagner Ware" around 1914, and before the stylized W was introduced around 1922. No catalog number is present, placing this piece firmly before 1924. Size number 7c below the logo and a heat ring on the base complete the picture. This is the No. 7 from the moment the Wagner Ware brand was still finding its identity — a transitional piece that brackets the exact visual transformation from arc-lettered Wagner to the stylized W that would define the brand for four decades.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 12 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 12 in the Steve's Seasoned Classics collection is not simply a large, scarce skillet — it is a dated document. The stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- logo positioned at the center of the base, combined with the complete absence of a catalog number, places this piece in the narrowest datable window in the entire Wagner Ware Sidney -O- skillet series: approximately 1922 to 1924. This is the earliest configuration in which the iconic stylized W logo appears on a Wagner skillet, cast before the four-digit catalog numbering system was adopted in 1924 and before the logo settled permanently into the 12 o'clock position. A scarce size made rarer still by an early mark, this No. 12 carries the oldest datable stylized logo configuration of any skillet in the SSC complete set.