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[pamike]

I got this anvil yesterday and I have been working on cleaning it up. it measures 30 3/4" tip of horn to heel the face is 4 1/8" wide and it is 12 1/8" high. I have not found any weight markings yet but I am guessing it is well over 200 pounds.















the Trenton logo is just above this stamp which reads Solid Wrought.

[Wesley Chambers]

any photos of the front foot under the horn?

[pamike]

Wesley Chambers, on 08 September 2010 - 10:07 PM, said:

any photos of the front foot under the horn?

i'll try to get them tomorrow.

[FieryFurnace]

My guess is between 200 and 220 pounds. I have a 280# that I just got and it is 2 inches taller, 1 inch longer, and 1 inch wider. That's alot more mass when you add it up so I think yours is 200 or just a little over.

The edges look pretty good as do the hardy and prichet holes! I use an 86 pound trenton for all my demo work and I like it. I think you got a good anvil there!

[ThomasPowers]

Was that the remains of a farriers clip up near the horn? The double pritchel I usually associate with a farriers model and I thought that they was a trace of a stub on the left when looking at the horn.

Lovely anvil and in nice shape as well!

The numbers under the horn on the foot should be a serial number that can be dated to a year and a weight IIRC...but that size should fit on a bathroom scale...

[Frank Turley]

It might be a farrier's pattern with the stub of a removed clip horn showing. If there is evidence of a rectangular cutting table, it could be a blacksmith's pattern. Farrier's anvils had no cutting table.

http://www.turleyforge.com Granddaddy of Blacksmith Schools

[Phil Krankowski]

Frank Turley, on 10 September 2010 - 09:36 PM, said:

It might be a farrier's pattern with the stub of a removed clip horn showing. If there is evidence of a rectangular cutting table, it could be a blacksmith's pattern. Farrier's anvils had no cutting table.

http://www.turleyforge.com Granddaddy of Blacksmith Schools

Looks a lot like my farrier pattern Trenton with a clip horn.

http://www.iforgeiro...2-trenton-list/
http://www.iforgeiro...__1#entry158778

Links have some pictures.

Phil

[Dragons lair]

OK with 2 pritchel holes might be a ferriers anvil. Clean the left front foot for weight #. Or just weigh the thing.
Grab the horn tip it up scale under let it down. If ya can't tip it on its butt its HEAVY. Bottom line fore me is can I do what i want/need with it.
Ken.