On 7/29/2017 at 0:13 PM, Porthos said:I have been fighting the urge to buy what I suspect is a Griswold #8 for $7.00 since I have gone on hiatus from restoring CI. My DD and SIL have moved into their new home. They now have room (and already had interest) so I will restore it for them.
That's a great price. One of my friends was vacationing in the "motherlode" country last month and sent me a photo of a cast iron skillet with a spider on the bottom and ERIE with a number 8 that was in a roadside junk store next to a convenience store. It was marked "25" so she picked it up and a couple of other things and gave the woman two twenties and got a ten back in change.
She asked if she had overpaid. I phoned her because I did not trust myself to type on my iPad.
That is one of the most collectible Griswold skillets and they sell for big bucks.
Now she feels that she should go back and give the woman more money and is agonizing about it.
In the meantime she is using it for cornbread.
Since my friends were in Sacramento and decided they wanted to be fair, they drove back to the store where she bought the skillet and told the woman it was valuable and wanted to give her more money. She accepted $250.00 but refused more and laughed and said she had probably sold things that were worth far less than the selling price, so it all evened out in the end. She gave Lynn another skillet, a small one and gave Steve an antique wooden carpenter's plane - just because they drove all the way back.
Honesty pays off!
