ArcherKN24

Has anyone here ever seen a Peter Wright anvil that was marked in the number of pounds instead of the CWT system?  I have been anvil shopping for some time on Facebook marketplace.  While on there, I came across someone selling a Peter Wright for a decent price.  Looking at the photos, I noticed the weight just in the center as a 3 digit number.  It defenitely was not spaced out like a CWT stamping, and that number matched what the seller was listing in the description as the weight.  Other than the weight, the markings looked just like pictured in the posts above.  My first thought was that someone was trying to pass of some cheaper anvil off as a Peter Wright, so I just closed the tab.  But now I am second guessing my decision.

Oooo, I like that one!

On 9/1/2017 at 1:13 PM, Charles R. Stevens said:

#10 the lowly rail anvil properly orintated

I count that as the eleventh photo, so one of those photos didn't get mentioned.

What did you think would happen on a forum page titled "Dating a post vise"?

Honestly though, reading all this has made me totally forget the question I wanted answered!  Oh well, I'm certainit will come back to me eventually.

On 3/22/2022 at 10:28 PM, Frosty said:

You'll find putting a Swedish anvil on wood will result in a deafening ring, seriously I used to wear plugs and muffs and a couple missed blows would still make my ears ring. No fooling LOUD!

You wanna quiet down a loud ringing anvil?  The old retired smith that showed me how to move metal always this.  "When you don't want an anvil to sing, muffle it's mouth with chain"!  Wrap some heavy chain around the waist of the anvil maybe 4 or 5 times, and any kind of ringing should be gone.

On 5/7/2018 at 7:37 PM, ThomasPowers said:

Because there are many many ways of mounting it where that doesn't make any difference?  Many times they were more of a selling point than a positive.  "Anvils were used for over 2000 years before they started putting a depression in their base---but you better get one with it!"

I don't mean to offend, and certainly don't find any fun in poking holes in your "selling point" theory.  And maybe I missed it further down, but since this comment was from 2018, I'm a little shocked that I'm the first to chime in!  

2000 year old anvils were almost certainly going to be stake anvils (a block of metal of the desired form with a spike at the bottom for driving into large tree stumps).  There are many european anvils still in existance from 500 or even 600 years ago that have feet.  And at one point I've seen pictures of a type called a bridge anvil (like an anvil and stand all in one that had an open arch under the main mass), and I think those started appearing in the late roman empire.