artfulanvil

Hello I am a new member to this site. I am based in UK and have played around with blacksmithing for a few years. I built my own forge and acquired a beautiful Peter Wright anvil at a rural auction. However, some low life thief has recently stolen my anvil. I was storing my blacksmithing equipment at my son's place in Norfolk whilst re-locating after a divorce. How the heck the thief managed to remove it is a mystery has its approx 259kgs (5.0.10). Myself and my son could barely lift it onto a sack barrow when i moved it to his place. I don't know when it was made but it had very little damage/wear to it. I am trying to get it back by swamping the local farms and scrap metal merchants with flyers but I doubt if i will ever see it again. I think Peter Wright anvils must be the most beautifully symetrical anvils ever made. There are lots of ugly lumps of metal around (ASO's) purporting to be a blacksmiths anvil but the PW had it all. There's no wonder that the pattern (London Pattern) was adopted throughout the UK and USA as it really does look and act the part. Anyway I'm now off to collect a farriers portable forge that I've just bought. Bye for now Pete