JM1957 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 (edited) Hello everyone I have been reading alot of the posts on here, so I thought I would check out my anvil. I came by this anvil when the wood treating plant I worked for closed about six years ago. I remember the anvil was allways in the shop, and I had been with them for over 30 years and the plant had been there for one hundred years. I have done the cleaning and scraping to find any markings, but have found none, other than the serial numbers stamped on the left font foot facing the horn. It is 36 inch's long 14.25 inch's tall and 4.75 inch's wide on the working surface. The base is 14.5" long by 12" wide. Not sure of the weight have no way to weigh it. the numbers are 300234 I tryed the chalk, and then the oil also to try too read them better the 3 and 4 on the end are questionable. Could someone identify this maker and year? I am going to try to add photo's to this post. Thanks for any help. not having much luck with the pics. Edited October 23, 2009 by JM1957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haasum Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 It will be very difficult for anyone to help ID your anvil without pictures, unless you can give very detailed accounts of all of it's features. I don't know how to do pictures or I would try to help with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM1957 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 I realize that I need pictures. I will have to keep trying to post them. Not much luck yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 May be a trenton as they did serial numbers on left foot when facing horn IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmthomas Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 JM, attaching pictures isn't working in the forum at the moment. You will need to either upload them to the Gallery and then link the picture in your post, or upload them to another site (like Flickr for example) and link them from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM1957 Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Ok i will try that thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irontwister Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 might be a trenton( definetly not arguing with you Mr.powers!) butit still might be a hay budden, or a arm and hammer, but im not familiar with arm and hammers. a little familiar with trenton but ive only used it once and looked at lots. they look like hb's if you ask me. im pretty familiar with hb's though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irontwister Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 May be a trenton as they did serial numbers on left foot when facing horn IIRC. they are also on thefront foot on H.B's. but that dont mean it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM1957 Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 Flickr: KAYLEE28's Photostream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Well the caplet depression means it's NOT an HB! Unfortunately I'm headed out of town after work and can't get to Anvils in America till Sunday most likely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sask Mark Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 (edited) A lot of times Trenton had both the serial number AND the weight stamped on the front of the foot while Arm and Hammers (and Hay Buddens) usually had only the serial number stamped on the foot with the weight being stamped on the side. The serial number provided doesn't seem to fit the scheme of HB, Trenton, or Arm and Hammer. Arm and hammer sn's never exceeded approx. 52000, Trenton never exceeded approx 225551, and Hay Budden never exceeded approx 250000 before resetting back to 1 with an 'A' prefix. Edited October 24, 2009 by Sask Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragons lair Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 All my trentons have weight on left serial on right. All my hay buddens have serial on the left. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irontwister Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 All my trentons have weight on left serial on right. All my hay buddens have serial on the left. Ken my HB's got it on the left (serial number) on the left side also on the front foot.either way it looks like a great anvil and i envy the user. just jokin but its a good lookin one thats for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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