Some Wagner pans were coated with nickel and later with chrome. The Wagners installed nickel baths in their foundry in the early 1890s to make cash registers and calculators. They sold their patents for these devices to a corporation owned by NCR before many were produced. They still had the nickel baths, so they put them to use by introducing an optional finish on their pans. They looked pretty when new, but the coating wears off (especially around the handles).

Some Wagner pans were coated with nickel and later with chrome.

In the early days, the Wagners installed nickel baths in their foundry to make cash registers and calculators they had patented. Before many of these were produced, they sold these patents to the Osgood Cash Register Company, a front for that National Cash Register Company (NCR).

In 1892, they still had the nickel baths, so they put them to use by This can be found on pg 7 of David Smith & Chuck Wafford's "The Book of Wagner & Griswald" (cast Iron collectors know this as `the Red book'). There are color pictures of a brass Wagner Calculator on pg 114.

I'm sure the pans looked pretty when new, but the coating wears off (especially where the pans are handled). There was a later line of Chrome plated pans called Silverlite.