Hey all, my sister has been keeping her eyes peeled for an anvil for me and she emailed me these pics today of an (owner described) 1835 approximately 110lb Mousehole. I am hoping for some better pics of the surface tomorrow but based on these pics any idea of value? Any info you can give me would be appreciated! Thanks!

With that long, LONG horn with cutting table, and long heel with both hardy hole and pritchel hole, it is closer to 1905 than 1835.

 

Call it $1 to $3 per pound depending on location and condition, no premium for age or collectors value. Any higher than that is dealer/reseller gouging, or flea-bay price envy from a garage sale/craigslist item.

 

There is a book on Mousehole Forge, and if you can get the markings on the side, it may be able to get a better date on the anvil.

Thank you John! I appreciate the info!

Value depends a lot on what Country you are in; shoot even in the USA it can vary by over US$1 a pound depending on where in the USA it is.

 

This is why we ask folks to put their general location in their profile as *many* blacksmithing questions have a location component in them.

 

As for that anvil I am a little concerned that the face to cutting table drop is quite shallow---could be just how the picture was taken; but it's a bad sign in a traditionally made anvil as it generally indicates that some yahoo has ground or milled the face down throwing away decades of it's use life for un-needed flatness.

I see the mouse hole anvil value from 2013, what would it be now? 2020

Do you want that in Euros, pounds or pesos?  Value depends quite a bit on LOCATION and CONDITION which have not been supplied.  World Wide Web; so anvils are cheaper in the UK and more expensive in Australia; even in the USA prices can differ depending on if you are on the coast or in the hinterlands or out in the desert South West.

I recently sold a Peter Wright, stamped 2  0  24 (== 248 pounds) for US$1000---about 4 US dollars a pound, a bit low for New Mexico, USA; but it had wear consistent with heavy use in the mines and it was a new smith wanting a medium sized anvil and it paid off my hoard buying loan; so I'm happy.   If it had been mint I would have gone $5 or $6.  (I had a lot of calls on it asking if the price was firm; I told them, "No I'd be happy to increase it by a dollar!", all the flippers were not happy with that answer...)