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Vintage cast iron cornbread pans

Corn stick pans bake bread in the shape of little ears of corn and are among the cheapest vintage cast iron to buy. Most common pans are seven-stick: Griswold's full-size No. 273 (pattern 930) and small tea-size No. 262 (pattern 625), Wagner's Krusty Korn Kobs pans (patented 1920) and later seven-stick Wagner Ware pans, and Lodge's 27C pans. A few — the Griswold 262 and Wagner's tea-size 1317 among them — have been reproduced, with rough casting, sloppy lettering and wrong numbers as giveaways. On any pan, hold it to the light and check each cavity for a through-crack, prefer crisp kernel detail, and treat rust on the back as cosmetic. Most everyday corn stick pans list for roughly $20–65.