Early American Cast Iron Holloware 1645-1900: Pots, Kettles, Teakettles, and Skillets

An invaluable information source about cast iron holloware of the pre—Griswold and Wagner era for collectors, museum curators, reenactors, and hearth cooking aficionados.

This is the first book to document cast iron pots, skillets, spiders, pans, kettles, teakettles, Dutch ovens, and mortars, plus several items in brass, from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, spanning the years 1645 to 1900.

Over 350 photos illustrate identifiable changes in the manufacturing technologies an...