I picked up a 98# Peter Wright over the weekend, my first London pattern anvil.  When I cleaned it up a bit I had found a large block letter formed "T" engraved in the bottom.  I'm curios if this was a mark that PW put on the anvil that means something, or a mark one of the smiths put on it for identification?

 

Thanks

Russell

Don`t know what it means but mine has a"H" stamped on each front foot and I have seen other PW with letters stamped like "J".

Bottom stamps on PW's is something I've brought up the last few years.   I've  found a few with a large X stamp,  O stamp, and one that had a triangle stamp.   No known reason attributable so far. 

Yeah, my Peter Wright has a P stamped on the foot.  It might be an indication that the anvils were sold through another distributor rather than directly through Peter Wright, I remember seeing an old receipt posted on Facebook where a shipment of anvils was purchased by another company to resell and all the anvils were given the same stamp to mark them as such.

Gotmituns, the T is for Texas 

 

It has England on it, so that should put it post 1910. 

 

The mark could be anything really. Shipping code, the worker who made it, inspector marking, tax/tariff mark, inventory marking, previous owner marked it for identification..........

On Thursday, April 02, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Black Frog said:

Bottom stamps on PW's is something I've brought up the last few years.   I've  found a few with a large X stamp,  O stamp, and one that had a triangle stamp.   No known reason attributable so far. 

Ive got a peater wright anvil with a triangle on the bottem the one you seen was the side of it steped out thats the wat mine is

 

Mine has an anchor stamped on the left foot. 140 lbs