strange anvil

[joshua.M]

i have never seen an anvil like this, i'm guessing it is some kind of armourers' anvil??? http://ontario.kijij...QAdIdZ365895730 I am not in a position to buy, so it's fair game!

Josh

[Bentiron1946]

I don't think it's "some kind of armourers' anvil" but just a normal smith's anvil for the period. Could be a Mousehole though. Price seems kind of high though but maybe they are in Canada.

[pkrankow]

Looks old, nothing special. Pre-pritchel hole, but I don't remember the date of that.

Phil

[joshua.M]

cool! any idea on a brand???

[Gayle Brooks]

In the Anvil book it looks similar to the Alsop Anvil (pg 14) It doesn't have the step (or table its called in the book) and there is mention of a very old type called a Moses anvil and Spanish anvils that look real similar but those have a 5th toe sticking out of the side (pg 12).

Interesting find none the less

[joshua.M]

cool! i love learning about anvils, i need to get a copy of AIA... mu guess of arourers' anvil was because it liiks alot like a "church windows" anvil that, from what iv read, was used for making armor.... prices here average $2.50-$4/lb depending on shape

[bigfootnampa]

It certainly might have been used to make armor though the age of armor was pretty well past by the time this style began to appear. I like the look of it! This style clearly was an ancestor to the more recent London pattern anvils. It would present a nice look for a colonial era reenactor.

[ThomasPowers]

Standard colonial anvil looking not at all like an armourer's anvil.

And BTW the "church windows used for armourmaking is rather a conjecture that doesn't hold up under strong scrutiny if you look at the engravings and paintings we have of real armourer's shops.

[Old South Creations]

Nice colonial anvil. Nothing special except it looks like it's in really good shape for it's age. According to AIA it would be pre-1780 (it lacks a pritchel which would have appeared around 1830 and it lacks a table which would have appeared around 1780).