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Posted 1 year ago
Laurabelle61
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Cast iron cornbread pans. The large one is printed on the back with Junior, Krusty Korn Kob registered in the US patent office, Wagner ware patent July 6, 1920 and then it has a number 1319. The smaller one may be a reproduction, but I have had it on my wall for 20+ years all I can find on that is the number 3
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Laurabelle61, Cool. :-)
I must say that I've always had an attraction to these corn pone molds that look like miniature corn cobs; however, I also must say that any name that can be initialized as "KKK" makes me nervous.
I had a very unsettling stop on a road trip years ago. I pulled into a AAA-approved hotel on a secluded back road after dark in a town with a name that was nagging at the back of my brain pan as a place with some seriously bad history.
I was relieved to find a young black woman behind the reception desk, and told myself to calm the heck down.
The next morning as I was pulling out, I saw some old derelict building half-covered with vines that didn't completely occlude the triple barrel name of the former business which could have been initialized as "KKK."
I made tracks out of that town as fast as I could. But enough about me and my travels. };-)
It took a bit of digging, but I found that patent here:
https://www.castironcollector.com/patents.php
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD55734
More about Wagner Ware:
https://www.booniehicks.com/wagner-cast-iron/
So it sounds like maybe the newest that one pan could be is about 1959?
Collectors kick around the details here:
https://www.castironcollector.com/forum/threads/wagner-senior-corn-stick-pan.5272/
Thank you Keramikos, you are a wealth of information ! I have two of the large cornbread pan. I did wonder why they spelled corn with a K… But I didn't pick up on the three K's . One never knows , there could've been some hidden intent there. As for your hotel stay I think you chose wisely to move along quickly. I didn't grow up with cornbread, homemade brown bread and white rolls were more popular here. I've always thought of cornbread as a southern treat
Laurabelle61, You're very welcome. :-)
I'm probably not so much a wealth of information as I am like a strip of fly paper with all kinds of things stuck to it. };-)
I didn't grow up with cornbread, either, but once I had some good quality stuff (not that stuff that you might find in some places nowadays loaded with enough sugar to make it a dessert), I loved it.
As to that town where I encountered the defunct "KKK" business, I probably should consider the possibility that it might no longer be an evil place. If it isn't, the residents might consider renovating that building, and turning it into a museum.
I actually have seen the KKK in their full regalia in broad daylight. It was down on the gulf coast in the late 1970s. I could hardly believe my eyes, but there they were. It sent a cold chill down my spine.
Some people might argue that I have nothing to fear from the KKK, being that I am of the freckled white persuasion with eyes that writer Thomas Mann would have described as being the color of distant mountains, but I would argue that we all stand to lose so long as evil like that persists.
I'm getting off of my soap box now. };-)
Growing up in the South, I’ve had my share of cornbread….the good kind, not from a boxed mix.
I have an iron cornbread pan also, but I doubt mine is vintage.