The two Wagner skillets we bought from eBay ... The Lodge Blacklock Triple Seasoned Cast-Iron Skillet is advertised as being 5 pounds 6 ounces, according to the specs listed on Lodge’s website ...

The hallmark feature of a vintage-style cast-iron pans like Lancaster’s is a smooth, polished cooking surface, evoking the pans once made by Griswold and Wagner around a century ago. Pans like ...

But those bygone brands (Wagner shuttered in 1952 and Griswold closed up shop in 1957, right around the time Teflon was popularized), along with most antique cast-iron cookware, have grown ...