SkyDaddy66

So that thing possibly came over on a boat with some of our ancestors??

I appreciate all the encouragement y'all! I am getting all the materials together now to build a forge and I can't wait until it is up and running!! Any tips on building the forge would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't been down to see the mine myself yet but I am going tomorrow to check it out and to see the smelting furnace that he found. I told him if he ever came across an anvil to bring it over and that's exactly what he did but I told him that I wanted to come and explore down where he lives at and he told me to come on down tomorrow so I'm definitely going to take some pictures of everything! And I actually know a good buddy of mine that has mined professionally up in Alaska and out in Colorado and he's actually on a prospecting trip right now as we speak. And I can tell you this about that Gold fever is real and alive in America today because my buddy Stamper is one Gold fever having SOB!!! But yeah I will definitely post pictures of the furnace and the actual site itself tomorrow at some point bud.

Well I will be home in about 20 minutes and I'm going to find out exactly how much it weighs! And it actually already has a pretty good backstory so far so I don't even think I will have to redesignate the BS in blacksmith! Hahaha. My buddy lives about 5 miles from me and about 2 mi behind his house in the woods there's an old gold mine next to the river and he found what we believed to be one of those gold separators or either it's a gold smelting device we're not really sure yet. And he also found that anvil out there beside the river near that gold mine. So I think that going from living in the dirt by river to being loved by a new I'll call myself apprentice blacksmith even though I'm not even that far along yet but I digress, being loved by a newish blacksmith enthusiasts is a pretty good story for it! Hell if he hadn't found it it probably would have set out there in the dirt for another God knows how many hundred years possibly.

all I did was a little pickling and wire brush and that's it. And actually I have to get the materials together to build a forge. All I've got is an anvil and a bucket full of really good hammers. It seems like every old building in barn that I ever cleaned out produced One hammerhead for me and so I started making random handles for my hammers and I started what I call my hammer bucket. I've got hammers that have handles made out of everything from good deer antler two table legs! But yeah I have to start gathering my material to make the forge and then I will be sitting pretty. And I saw the pickling technique online and talk to a buddy of mine who does metal work and he said that it would be the best way to clean up that anvil and after I got done pickling it and hit and get with a wire brush it looks like a brand new anvil and I didn't lose any metal from it. With the 1 and the 16 on the front I thought that that was 128 lb One equals a quarter weight which is 26 lb and then you add the six to that and it ends up being about 160 lb I do believe from what I read online but you would know more about that than I do so just let me know and I'm going to see if I can weigh when I get home.

Actually I didn't buy it I did some bartering and dickering for it and as far as that goes I would say that I paid $47.25!!!!!!! So in the end I don't think I did too bad either way. I always said that once I found an anvil I would build myself a forge and since this is the first annual I've owned I guess it's time for me to start figuring out how to build my first forge to go along with it!!!!

Is there any way I could put a value on it brother? And I really appreciate the tip man I've got one right in the street from my house I'm going to walk down there in the morning

Do you know possibly how or where it was made? And I'm trying to find a ball bearing that I can use to test it but all I keep finding are these tiny little bearings and nothing substantial to use And where are my manners, thank you so much for the information you have provided I really appreciate it I'm very grateful that I found this website

Sorry as you can tell I am completely green and wet behind the ears on this. Hahaha. And I am from High Point North Carolina and the anvil was found by a buddy of mine about 3 mi from my house and the guy said that he actually found it at an old gold mine which is about 5 miles from my house in the woods.

I am new to the forum but I bought an anvil recently and all it has is the one and a 16 on one side and there's no other identifying marks except for a equal sign with a line through it on the front can anyone help me to identify and date what year this thing was made possibly? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

Could you guys possibly help me identify my anvil there's no triangle or other identifying marks except for a one and a six on one side and then on the front is the kind of looks like a equal sign with a line through it.