The picture shows steel (or iron) enamelware vessels similar to ones
you can buy off the shelf today in camping supply or country grocery
stores. Currently such items are imported from Mexico. There is an
undated and unattributed description of the manufacturing process in
a dreadful collectors volume called "300 years of kitchen
collectibles" by Linda Campbell Franklin. Stamped steel vessels were
first prepared, then dipped in enamel. After firing, they were dipped
in a second enamel bath that was contrived to cover only imperfectly,
to give the mottled surface effect. After the second dipping, the
wares were fired again. These are very durable utensils; I have used
some for decades, and they turn up regularly at farm auctions in
pretty good shape.
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    Ned Heite  ([log in to unmask])
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