Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 0 Cast Iron Toy Skillet
This is the last one. The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 0 toy skillet completes the Steve's Seasoned Classics Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Complete Skillet Set — No. 0 through No. 14, with No. 1 confirmed as a size that was never produced. At approximately 5 inches across the top rim, the No. 0 is the smallest piece in the set and the only toy skillet in the line. It carries the full stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- logo on its small base, a heat ring on its base perimeter, original milling marks on its cooking surface, and no catalog number — only the logo, which is enough. Cast from the same Sidney iron, in the same foundry, with the same quality standard as the No. 14 alongside it. Every size. Every piece documented. Every story told.
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.
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.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 6 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 6 is one of the two most commonly produced sizes in the standard skillet line — and in a complete set, that commonness is the point. The No. 6 was the size that fit the standard domestic stove eye, the size a cook reached for a single serving or a small family portion, the size produced continuously across the full span of the collector era. This example, catalog number 1056 D, is the heat-ring version — cast in the decade between the adoption of the catalog numbering system in 1924 and the smooth-bottom transition of approximately 1935. It is the No. 6 from the wood-stove era, before the flat-topped gas range made the heat ring obsolete, and it documents the daily domestic cooking life of a generation of American households as faithfully as any rarer piece in the collection.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 8 Cast Iron Skillet
The No. 8 is Wagner Ware's flagship size — the most produced skillet in the Sidney line, the size featured in Wagner's advertising, the piece that appears in every antique market in America. What makes this particular example worth documenting is its pattern letter. Catalog number 1058 T carries pattern letter T — the twentieth letter of the alphabet — meaning at least nineteen sand mold patterns for the No. 8 had been produced, used until worn, and replaced before this one was cut. No other size in the Wagner Ware Sidney -O- line accumulated pattern letters at this rate. The T is not a date code. It is a production volume document, recording in a single letter the extraordinary scale at which Wagner manufactured its most popular size. This smooth-bottom example, c. 1935–1959, is the No. 8 in the SSC complete skillet set.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 9 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 9 is an uncommonly encountered size — sandwiched between the ubiquitous No. 8 and the more readily found No. 10, it falls into a gap that most collectors working the open market encounter as a genuine search rather than a casual find. This example, catalog number 1059 D, carries the stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- logo at 12 o'clock, the heat ring of the c. 1924–1935 production era, and the fourth pattern designation in the No. 9 mold sequence. It was acquired in electrolytically stripped condition — markings fully legible, iron sound, base flat — and enters the SSC collection as the heat-ring representative of the No. 9 in the complete Wagner Ware Sidney -O- skillet set.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 10 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 10 smooth-bottom skillet, catalog number 1060A, represents the later collector era of Sidney production — cast after Wagner eliminated the heat ring from the standard No. 10 pattern, and before SIDNEY -O- was removed from the logo after 1959. At 11¾ inches across the top rim it is a large household size, a genuine working pan built for family cooking rather than institutional volume. Two features of the base make this example particularly worth documenting: the smooth bottom that places it firmly in the c. 1935–1959 window, and a non-standard rotation of the logo position — a pattern-specific characteristic of the 1060A mold recorded here as part of the SSC collection record.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 11 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 11 is one of the genuinely scarce sizes in the standard skillet line — less frequently encountered than the No. 10 below it or the No. 12 above it, and seldom found with fully legible markings in presentable condition. This example, catalog number 1061A, arrives in the SSC collection as-found and unrestored, retaining the original aged surface patina of a pan that worked for decades. The stylized logo sits at 12 o'clock, the catalog number 1061A — pattern letter A designating the first mold pattern cut for this size — sits at 6 o'clock, the heat ring is intact, and all markings are fully legible. A scarce size, an early pattern designation, and an original surface: three things worth preserving and documenting.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 13 Cast Iron Skillet
The Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 13 is one of the two scarcest sizes in the standard Wagner skillet line. At 14¼ inches across the top rim and 12¾ inches at the cooking floor, it sits just below the No. 14 in the size progression and shares its rarity, its heat ring, and its commercial character. Never produced in smooth-bottom form, never intended for the household stove, the No. 13 was built for boarding houses, farm kitchens, and camp cookhouses — anywhere a cook worked at volume. This example, catalog no. 1063, is in exceptional restored condition with deep even seasoning, fully legible markings, and both handles intact. It occupies the penultimate position in the Steve's Seasoned Classics complete Wagner Ware Sidney -O- skillet set, No. 0 through No. 14.
Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 14 Cast Iron Skillet
At 15¼ inches across the top rim and 13½ inches at the cooking floor, the Wagner Ware Sidney -O- No. 14 is the largest standard skillet the Wagner Manufacturing Company of Sidney, Ohio ever produced — and one of the rarest. Built not for the household stove but for the boarding house, the logging camp cookhouse, and the farm kitchen feeding a harvest crew, the No. 14 represents the outer limit of what Wagner cast in its 108 years of Sidney production. This example, catalog no. 1064, carries the stylized Wagner Ware Sidney -O- logo, a heat ring correct and expected for this size, and the size mark '14' incised on the handle top — all confirming pre-1959 collector-era manufacture. It anchors the Steve's Seasoned Classics complete Wagner Ware Sidney -O- skillet set, No. 0 through No. 14.