fluidsteel Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 This has been on CL for a bit. Tempted to get it though I don't NEED it.... http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/grd/3074251831.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Frog Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Says its removed, maybe you waited a bit too long. Sometimes I'm relieved to see things removed before my temptation gets the best of me..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluidsteel Posted July 1, 2012 Author Share Posted July 1, 2012 http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/grd/3110907143.html It got re-listed. I really don't have the money nor need it... But figured I'd share it in case someone needs a 400#er. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Interesting anvil. The small step made me initially think Brooks/Vaughn, but the heel is too thin. Looks like a mild casting defect in the parting line under the horn, but the edges of the face look honestly worn, chipped and rusted. Perhaps one of the cast base/forged top half anvils like Columbian? Never seen a live Columbian on the hoof, just going off pictures here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clinton Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I am with Stewart on this- you need this anvil. I would question the weight, it may be a 300 lb anvil. So you tell the guy, "You have it listed at $2.50/ lb, and it is 300 lb = $750" Anvils are usually marked for weight, I see them all the time where the guy says it weighs 300 lb because it takes 3 or 4 guys to pick it up, when in fact he has a 200 lb anvil and 3 or 4 wimpy guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Evers Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 I really can't see it being over 300 pounds. My 250 pound Vulcan which is a much blockier anvil has a table almost as big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluidsteel Posted July 1, 2012 Author Share Posted July 1, 2012 You are joking, right? If I lived near that anvil, it would be in the back of my minivan faster that the wing- bat of a hummingbird. Jump on that anvil! For $2.50 a pound, how many four hundred pounders are out there? I know. But I really don't have the money now. This is more of a first come, first served. As far as weight. It was pictured with a 150ish pound HayBudden in his original add and it dwarfed the HB. I lean towards it truly being 400#. The original pictures also show the faceplate sitting proud of the edges of the anvil slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Columbian were cast steel anvils not multipart ones. Now Trentons and Arm and Hammers used a cast base and forged top IIRC---and tend toward the elongated horn and heel look too. Get a true weight on it---two bathroom scales with a board across them and the anvil place in the middle should at least get you close. If it is an american made anvil it will be marked in lbs and not cwt a Picture of the underside of the base can help tell what it is too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Yup, Thomas is right, just checked AIA. Columbians were all cast steel, not half and half. It was the Trenton anvil, made by the Columbus Co. I was thinking of. Columbus, not Columbian. Sorry. Good catch Thomas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I knew an old smith, (had over 60 years in as a paid working smith), that had a 400# double horned Columbian anvil that I have dearly coveted for around 28 years now, as he was in his 80's when I first met him he's almost certainly gone and I still wonder what became of it... Having lived in Columbus OH too I've seen a couple of A&H and Trentons go past and they tend towards the exaggerated lines of the late 19th century American anvils. Shoot I freely confess: Anvils, I loves them all! (well almost all, not a big fan of Vulcans and ASOs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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