TonyBKK

Haha no problem Frosty, I think I can do that.

The stand was built by the previous owner for display purposes only. I didn't weigh the stand yet but I guess it would be around 150 lbs, I could only just lift it myself.

Hi All, I'm new to this site and I really wanted to share my story with you all. I've been wanting to get into blacksmithing for sometime now, so I set about gathering the basic tools. As you can imagine, living in Thailand, its very difficult to find blacksmithing tools and the ones that I did find are really expensive (antique dealers). Anyway, I found out by word of mouth that a guy was selling an anvil, so me and the wife took a drive out to his place. Upon arrival to his shop I saw this monster anvil on display. I couldn't believe my eyes, I pretty much knew what it was at first sight and got really excited. I've been searching for anvils in Thailand for about 1 year, but with no luck, good ones are sold very quickly and for ridiculous prices. We met the owner and his wife and they turned out to be pickers, travelling all over Thailand collecting treasures. They picked up this anvil 3 years ago from a place called Ayutthaya and apparently it was left behind from the Japanese occupation during the WW2. I searched all over the anvil for makers marks, stamps etc... I was almost certain it was indeed a peter wright anvil with 3.2.2 weight on the side. It also had Patent Wrought but Peter Wright wasn't visible. Other marks was a Japanese name Takamiyagi which I suspect was the Japanese Blacksmith but can't be certain. Also it had a Mathieson Glasgow stamp with logo on it, after some research it found out that Mathieson Glasgow was a hand tool manufacturer in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1800's, so I suspect this monster anvil was at some point in their factory but can't be 100% certain. I found it very interesting how this anvil ended up in Thailand. Its in pretty good shape also, doesn't appear to have been abused. The owner didn't want to sell it, but I had to have it. He eventually gave in and sold it to me. As far as I know its the only Peter Wright anvil of this size in Thailand, actually I've never heard of another Peter Wright in Thailand but i'm sure there will be somewhere waiting to be found Anyway, hope you all like it. Thanks, Tony.