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265729 Matt Cooper <MaNoCooper@l...> 2018‑04‑18 Re: pan
If it is Griswold it could be nickel or chrome. Nickel was used on the early
ones and has a warm slightly yellow tone. Chrome a blue cold tone. Nickel many
times had a satin or dull finish. Chrome was highly polished.
You can clean with lye,mor steel wool. Electrolysis may strip the plating. More
can be found here.

http://www.castironcollector.com/plated.php

And here

http://www.castironcollector.com/lyebath.php


Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Tablet.


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From: anne watson 
Date: 4/18/2018 11:47 (GMT-05:00)
To: Ed Minch , OldTools List 
Subject: Re: [OldTools] pan

Better check,  I think the value goes down for cleaned ones.

Mine are just plain old black.

Never saw a nickel plated griswald



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From: Ed Minch<mailto:ruby1638@a...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:31 AM
To: OldTools List<mailto:oldtools@s...>
Subject: [OldTools] pan

GGG

Some years ago my brother picked up a 9 inch Griswald frying pan for $1 at a
garage sale - and it is nickel plated.  It had some baked



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