![]() ![]() This logo would come to be known as the "large block logo" or "LBL", the "large" referring to the lettering and differentiating it from a later revision with smaller lettering. The overall weight of the logo would become more bold as well. Later, around 1920, the slant logo was updated, with the lettering being changed to a block style. ![]() On the older, "ERIE" marked pieces, the trademark was typically not as heavily incised as on the later "ERIE, PA, U.S.A." pans. The slant logo was seen on both heat ringed and in rare cases smooth bottom skillets, as well as on pans marked "ERIE" and "ERIE, PA, U.S.A.", being referred to by collectors as "Slant Erie" and "Slant EPU", respectively. Slightly smaller and proportionally different from the normal slant, it may have been the result of a prototype pattern being used for actual production. There exist a few pieces with what is sometimes for lack of a better term called a medium slant logo. The slant logo was generally of the same diameter on most pieces, with exceptions made for pieces like lids, where a reduced size version was used. While "trademark" is the more properly applicable term, "logo" is often used and should not be regarded as incorrect. "Slant" because of the stylized italic lettering used for the name. As with later Griswold trademarks, it consisted of a cross inside a double circle, with the name GRISWOLD spanning the horizontal arms of the cross. The first "Griswold" trademark to be used across virtually all production, and perhaps the most iconic, is known as the "slant logo". CO." had been added mid-way through their period of manufacture. ![]() The last surviving text-only trademark would continue to be seen on the Victor economy line of skillets, to which "THE GRISWOLD MFG. This second trademark containing the Griswold name would be short lived, however, as traditional block lettering would begin to be replaced by stylized logos by many makers. Iron cross weight block series#The name Griswold alone on a trademark would then first appear on a handful of pieces in the form of Griswold's first stylized logo, known as the "Griswold's Erie Diamond", and next when the sixth series "ERIE" skillets were changed to read "GRISWOLD'S ERIE", around 1906. Griswold bought out his relatives' interest in 1884. Having been in business with his cousins, the Selden brothers, since 1868, the name Griswold was originally seen in the mark "Selden & Griswold", on various pieces of hollowware. Matthew Griswold had been making cast iron hollow ware for the better part of two decades before first putting the Griswold name on a skillet. ![]()
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