Lou Decruss wrote:
>
> the type of sale this was I think it's the real deal. The finish
> doesn't look like any chrome I've ever seen and I've no clue what
> nickel should look like so I'm confused. I've found several queries
> just like mine but not found an answer.

I'd guess it's tin. I don't have any Griswold,
but I've got a huge collection of cast iron
meat presses. The parts which touch the meat
are washed with tin. Tin wets cast iron rather
easily, so it's a cheap coating to prevent rust.
So-called "tin cans" are actually tin-coated
steel.

"Mark Thorson" wrote:
> Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>> the type of sale this was I think it's the real deal. The finish
>> doesn't look like any chrome I've ever seen and I've no clue what
>> nickel should look like so I'm confused. I've found several queries
>> just like mine but not found an answer.
>
> I'd guess it's tin.

It's much more likely chrome, chrome plating on rough cast iron is going to
appear as a kind of matte finish... tin wouldn't hold up well to the
temperatures associated with cast iron cookery and is too soft to endure a
spatula for very long... entire cast iron stoves were often chrome plated,
cast iron barber chairs too... its a fairly simple and inexpensive
process... many hot rod buffs have all the cast iron parts including the
entire engine, manifolds, and transmission housing chrome plated. That pan
is very likely the real deal, it would be very difficult to produce a knock
off with that logo cast into the bottom... plus it's not an expensive enough
item to mitigate the costs associated with fakery. It could have been
reconditioned with glass bead shot and a replating at some point too, not
very expensive. That someone let it go for cheap could mean no more than
they had it for years but never used it other than as a decoration... to me
cast iron cookware has zero culinary value.

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:33:17 -0700, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>> the type of sale this was I think it's the real deal. The finish
>> doesn't look like any chrome I've ever seen and I've no clue what
>> nickel should look like so I'm confused. I've found several queries
>> just like mine but not found an answer.
>
>I'd guess it's tin. I don't have any Griswold,
>but I've got a huge collection of cast iron
>meat presses. The parts which touch the meat
>are washed with tin. Tin wets cast iron rather
>easily, so it's a cheap coating to prevent rust.
>So-called "tin cans" are actually tin-coated
>steel.

I can't find anything about tin being used. Just chrome and nickel.

Lou