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I know its a peter wright i can't quite make out the numbers on it to see what its weights i know its well over 100 lbs. It has some rust but besides that it only has a few dings in the horn part of it. its never been redone its orginal from what i can tell. i live in southeast missouri.

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your anvil sure looks like a peter wright. based upon the picture, your anvil is worth between two and five dollars a pound, contingent upon where you live and scarcity of anvils in your area. The anvil looks good enough to use. Welcome to IFI, and good luck!


Thanks very much for your response.
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It looks to be in decent shape. I'd offer a $150 or so and go up to about $225 before I'd balk. I have one in better shape and weighing 189 pounds (Peter Wright) that I would sell for
$400 if you drove up to Saint Louis to get it from me... just to give you a comparison.

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Is "well over 100 pounds" 110 pounds or 190 pounds? If someone was selling you gold or diamonds wouldn't the exact weight make a difference in price?

Hard to tell the state of the face from those blurry pictures, just like a car how bunged up the body makes a difference in re-sale price.

OTOH *repairs* or even worse grinding or milling to make the face *perfect* sends the price plummeting!

BigFoot's pricing is rather along the same lines as my self for that region.

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Yeah, I see it now too. The mark at the bottom of the zero was throwing me. I had to blow up the area and run a sharpen filter on it to see it. But yeah - looks like a nice anvil.

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Yeah, I see it now too. The mark at the bottom of the zero was throwing me. I had to blow up the area and run a sharpen filter on it to see it. But yeah - looks like a nice anvil.
Thanks for all ur info guys i plan to get out soon and wire brush it, i may make a vid of the hammer bounce test, it is for sale, if anyone is close.
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Thanks for all ur info guys i plan to get out soon and wire brush it, i may make a vid of the hammer bounce test, it is for sale, if anyone is close.

Southeast Missouri can be fairly big, could you give a little more info on your location? an update to your profile will also help in the future. Also, what are you asking?
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Southeast Missouri can be fairly big, could you give a little more info on your location? an update to your profile will also help in the future. Also, what are you asking?
At this point im not so sure ive got people telling me 2$ a lbs and people telling me 5$ a lbs so im going to wait it out for jsut a bit to see what i think is the fairest price.
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The fairest price for Peter Wrights is 2.5-3.5 dollars a pound. Of course, I would never pay that much, but you can find a buyer at that price. This assumes that your PW is in usable shape.

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Amvils in America tend to be more expensive on the coasts and desert southwest and least expensive in places like Ohio which had a high population back in the hay day of the anvil. So the fair price depends on *your* location unless you factor in the shipping costs to some of the other locations.

This is why asking BAM (Blacksmith Association of Missouri) would make more sense than asking a world wide forum.

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