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rustyanchor I think the cost of taking the Trenton with me is marginal, I am just trying to lighten the load overall (I also will get rid of the 250# flywheel base for my drill press for example). It will cost me at least $300CAD to ship my grandfathers to me, so I thought if I can sell this, ship that, I will have a slightly larger anvil, but more importantly, have a piece of our family history secured. Here is Grandpa Spring finishing up the Sword of Melchior (that anvil is not his, it was the shop anvil). He passed 30 years ago at the age of 92. My dad has a picture of him in Germany doing part of his apprenticeship on a 4' training anvil - I'd post it, but i don't have it with me. I do have somewhere a small binder of his designs though, I could post those somewhere if folks were interested (if I can find them).

The pictured anvil is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, good point re Halifax, there is more than one... My grandfather's is in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Last time my dad checked there were no markings on my grandfather's, perhaps they were missed. That anvil was his in NYC where he worked doing railings and such for brownstones. I have a picture of him from way back where he also made the sword of Melchior for a production at the MET. I had tried contacting them years ago, but the sword is long gone.

Hi there, I stumbled on this thread and forum as I have a Trenton and I was hoping to know more about it. My grandfather was a blacksmith in NYC and I have his 130ish lb anvil in Halifax waiting for me to ship it west at some point. Its expensive to ship anvils 3000 miles so I picked up Trenton a year ago just to have in the hopes of eventually getting the hobby going - and to use in the meantime to bend cold steel on for autobody. We are now moving to the Yukon and I am trying to lighten the load for the move and considering selling the Trenton, especially since I will probably be able to get my grandfathers anvil before I get to start pounding iron which is still probably years out. Anyway, I was curious if someone with an AIA could date it for me (A59975). I think its 135# from what I have read here... Thanks in advance, Kerry Here are the pictures: