On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:55:01 -0600, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>Chemiker wrote:
>> On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:34:25 -0600, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:

>It's a little hard to tell if the set is identical from the picture.
>Most cast iron skillets look alike from th top view. It's on the bottom
>that they differ.

They differ in another way too, Janet.

1. All my Lodge stuff has a tear-drop perforation in the handle,
beveled down *from the top*.

2. My one piece of WagnerWare, a 10" skillet, is also perfed
teardrop shape, but beveled from the *bottom* of the handle.

3. My Heuck piece is teardrop shaped, beveled from the top,
BUT there are molded in some thumb grooves on the upper
part of the handle, close to the bowl. If you look closely at
those Amazon pieces shown at that link, you can just make
out the thumb gooves.

I'd say if your pieces are perforated with top beveling and
have thumb grooves, there's a good chance Heuck made them.

>"way-the-heck-south Texas" is Harlingen. Mail comes from the San Benito
>PO rural delivery. Our house is less than 5 miles from the Rio Grande.
>We are east of Pharr, San Juan and Alamo, but we know the towns well.
>
Well, that's south-Texas all right. Makes me feel like a northerner.

Alex

It's in the 60's now, and temp is falling.