Your grandma’s skillet may be a hidden gold mine, as 1950s cast-iron pans now fetch a fortune. Collectors are driving up prices across resale platforms and antique markets, with pieces selling at ...

The boxes arrive with Griswolds, Wagners, Lodges and other vintage queens of cast-iron cooking, now worse for wear. Some are ...

Among collectors, conversations about cast iron have a way of getting sentimental, and they often land in the same place: craftsmanship. “Cast-iron pans used to be made by hand,” says Mary Theisen, an ...

Google, Amazon, Smithey Ironware — they all got their starts in garages, and all have a Charleston-area presence today. Isaac Morton, founder of Smithey Ironware, technically tinkered in his woodshed ...