Cast iron and metal pot

This unusual cooking pot is not entirely cast iron. It has a cast iron bottom which extends 3/4" up the thinner metal body. Both sections feel and sound different, and are probably from a three part mold. My great grandmother used it on her wood stove or at the large stone hearth in an outbuilding on their eastern Penn. farm. Perhaps it's a transitional iron pot from hearth to cookstove?

The bottom and inside bottom feel and sound like cast iron - thud, but as I tap up the side it pings, the metal is thinner and feels very smooth. The cast iron goes from the bottom up to 3/4" of the side.

What is it and where/how was it made? A transitional iron pot for hearth then into a wood cookstove? A bottom repair? or ...? Does anyone have or used one of these pots? I own and have used many cast iron items and pots of various metals while hearth cooking the last 30 years, but never used one like this.

The basics: elongated bulge pot with 'cow's horn ears', wire bail and a metal upper section joined at each side, with curving rim. 8 3/4" high with a 10" diameter at the top, 8" diameter at bottom, a thick cast iron bottom with a thin gate, number '8', and stub legs. Likely a three part mold, but I don't know how this bottom was joined to the thinner two metal sides with two seams.

Interior showing the round cast iron bottom with some rust. The side (body) is smooth (flash) -

Ears -

Legs -

Seam down side and bottom gate -

My great grandparents married in 1900 and bought a farm near Saylorsburg, north of Bethlehem/Allentown PA. The farm had some German aspects (they were of German ancestry) such as a chicken ladder he made to a tree HERE and a bank barn like the one HERE. In addition to farming, he was also a butcher selling his meat from a wagon. The outside of the pot looks like it was painted black, perhaps by my grandmother (it held her magazines) after 1960 when her mom died. Lizzie, 1909 photo.

The large stone fireplace of the out kitchen/wash house, snowing -

John Tylers' book has alot of information and pictures, though none exactly like this pot.
Tyler, John D. Early American Cast Iron Halloware: Pots, Kettles, Teakettles, and Skillets. 2013

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Oct 13 1 Josiah Wedgewood ‘The Radical Potter’. “revolutionised the production of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying technology with design, manufacturing efficiency and retail flair… campaigned for free trade and religious toleration… created the ceramic ‘Emancipation Badge’.” Tristram Hunt. Messums Wiltshire. £10 HERE

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