Pie Pan
Catalog #
1985.299.001
Accession #
Metal round pie pan. Manufacturing mark reads No.286, WEAR-EVER, Aluminium, shows 4 stars within a circle, and the initials N. A.?.C Ltd. Trademark, Made in Canada. WearEver Cookware can trace its origins back to 1888 when Charles Martin Hall, a young inventor from Oberlin, Ohio discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum by perfecting the electrochemical reduction process that extracted aluminum from bauxite ore. Initially this cookware was sold door-to-door by college students and would later be purchased in large quantities by organizations.[3] In 1912, the United States Marine Corps who would adopt WearEver aluminum utensils as their standard issue utensils. Research did not reveal the age of this pan.