DaveMartell

I had no idea that Fishers used a coded date, I've never seen anything other than an actual date, this is good to know. On the "Crossley era", is this a good time in Fisher's history, meaning are the anvils of the same quality as earlier ones? My friend is going to buy this regardless and I'll post some better pictures once he has it. These ones are from the seller. Thanks for the history! Dave

A friend of mine sent me these pictures of an anvil that he has the chance to buy and was asking me what I could tell him about it since the person who has it has no idea of weight and wasn't able to go measure it for size. I can see that it's a Fisher from the style, it's obviously as clean as you could ever hope for, is marked with a date of 19?? and the weight marking is unclear but possibly a 3-digit number. My question to you guys is just based on what you can see here in the pictures can you determine the weight? I had originally thought 150lb but after looking at it more I think it might by bigger. Any thoughts or comments will be welcome. Dave Ryan anvil1 resize.bmp Ryan anvil2 resize.bmp

Very nice work!

150kg?

I LOVE it!

You got a steal on this one - congrats. I know because I almost jumped in on the bidding but held off. Now I'm really kicking myself but I'm also happy that someone who will use it snagged it. Again - congrats!

Yes, me too, thanks everyone.

29 bids??? :blink:

Oh that's hilarious...made me chuckle. :D

What a steal!

Very cool of you to share this here. Thanks!

That's a monster right there! Awesome! :)

That looks like it's got potential to be a great deal.

Buy them both! Please let us know what you end up with and pictures are even better.

I like it! B)

300lb Unknown for $300 - Mass http://southcoast.craigslist.org/tls/1849159659.html Unknown for $100 OBO - CA http://visalia.craigslist.org/atq/1841699172.html 135lb Unknown for $200 - NY http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/atq/1835862994.html 402lb Unknown for $800 - VA http://blacksburg.craigslist.org/grd/1825439266.html 157lb Mousehole for $225 - NH http://nh.craigslist.org/tls/1816814804.html 149lb Trenton for $275 - NY http://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/1815620707.html

200lb Fisher for $200 - Ohio http://youngstown.craigslist.org/tls/1856131030.html 300lb Unknown for $200 - Ohio http://limaohio.craigslist.org/tls/1855958707.html 143lb Trenton for $185 - Virginia http://roanoke.craigslist.org/grd/1854467974.html 185lb Fisher for $150 - Illinois http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/1853863106.html 125lb Peter Wright for $100 - Illinois http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/1853852974.html

I think I'm more impressed with the story of how you acquired this than of the anvil itself and that's saying a lot because that's one killer anvil ya got there! It sure is nice to have good friends. :)

Thanks for the welcome and I will ask questions as they come up. :)

Thanks for the info!

I just joined the forum because I couldn't stand to not see the pictures. Figured I'd post my recently acquired Peter Wright 113lb'r while I'm here oogling away. I have no idea how old she is so if anyone knows please speak up I'd love to hear about it. PS - Hopefully I'll post more but for the time being I'm on the sucking up info side of things here, I'm a complete noob to the forge.