All of those lovely serving pieces that had handles and lid, had a glass liner. It's pretty easy to figure out whose bowl was sold with it, because the shape of the aluminum bowl fits the glass liner perfectly. It doesn't wiggle or rock. And the lid sits on the glass perfectly. The earliest bowls used had tab handles. Tab handles were produced by Pyrex until 1936. So any item that came with that lid, was produced prior to that.
A good example is casserole trivet Rodney Kent #440:
There are a lot of the trays floating around and some of the lids, often not together. This particular item is fitted with 1 1/2 Quart Pyrex Bowl (683-B-023-623-B * T.M.REG * PYREX * Made in USA * B-H). Note how the lid fits perfectly around the bowl slightly flaring upward before folding over the edge of the bowl. The notched openings for the tab handle fit exactly.
As you can see below, #440 came two ways -- a flat picot edge and folded edge. Both are stamped #440 with the shield type of stamp ( see blog on identifying marks). If you look at the shapes of the indentations you will notice that the one with the folded edge has a much more rounded curve, leading me to believe that it used a later bowl with the "C" shaped handle, which had more of a curve to its bottom.
This is casserole #461 with a similar bowl. The handles of the aluminum bottom, which is stamped with the shield stamp and has the arrow tab aluminum handles, which I believe predates the single flower handle, also has the lid that requires a tab handled Pyrex bowl. The bowl for this casserole has the imprint (683-B-023-623-B * T.M.REG * PYREX * Made in USA * B-WW).
Below is the imprint of the bowl.
When Pyrex changed their handle style to the "C" handle, Krischer Mfg. changed the lid style to on the still folded over the sides of the Pyrex bowl, but now covered the handles following its contour. The 1 1/2 Quart casserole below on a footed pedestal is #407 with the shield mark.
Krischer Mfg. also made a 2 Quart Casserole #434. There was no stamp on the aluminum carrier because it was stamped on the box. At this point, the lid changed into the dome type with the pie crust edge. It sat inside the bowl, no longer accommodating the glass insert's handle. The maker changed also. Now the glass liner was being purchased from Fire King.
This is the stamp from the original bowl that came with this set. Unfortunately it didn't make it through the mail because the glass was not separated from the lid, which was sitting upside down in the bowl and probably tapped it one too many times on its way from the seller to me. the mark is (T.M.REG * FIRE KING * 7 * MADE IN USA * 2 QT) Having the imprint of the bottom, I was able to replace the bowl after searching eBay and the thrift stores.
Not to be outdone in the 2Quart casserole offerings, Pyrex provided a divided 2 quart bowl in another unstamped item, #491 2 compartment casserole. It came with the domed piecrust lid. This bowl made it through the shipping process in one piece
The color advertisement was attached to the lid with a hole punched in it's center.
The divided bowl was stamped ( T.M.REG * PYREX * Made in USA )
Below is the Casserole holder #418, which holds a 1 1/2 quart casserole bowl. It also has the domed pie crust lid. The bowl inside is a Pyrex Bowl with "C" handles. It is stamped:
(023 1 1/2QT* TRADE MARK * PYREX * R inside circle * B-18).
This also came with a green tag on a string wrapped round the flower finial of the lid, identifying it as a Rodney Kent product. More about that in another blog.
The last lid style takes us back to a bowl from Pyrex. I do not have a handle on when this was produced, so maybe someone from a Pyrex group will know more. This bowl had no handles and the bottom had a pressed design of concentric circles.
The lid fit the opening exactly and it sat inside the rim of the glass. A Casserole chafing dish also came with this same bowl. The imprint reads ( 595 * TM REG* PYREX * MADE IN USA * A-5)
You can see that as the glass insert changed, the lid changed with it.
This blog has covered all the known bowl inserts used in the many casserole iterations that were in the Rodney Kent line. There are at least 4 more types of casserole holders that I own. But they use the same glass sizes.
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