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Let us cut through all the hype and provide some hard numbers on anvil prices. You know what you paid for YOUR anvil, help us build a data base. Please list the following information

Brand (if available)
Weight
Condition (Photo if it is available)
Price paid and year
Location and other details if you wish.

As the number of anvils posted increases, so will the data base. No more smoke and mirrors, no more hype, just REAL numbers.

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Brand: Trenton
Weight:126
Price: $125 (He "couldn't go any lower than $1.00/lb)
condition, Sides were painted silver, top excellent, edge 2 small chips that ground out to a nice radius.
year 2000

I also bought a buffalo blower ($35) frozen, that took about two weeks of soak to free.
A 4" vise of unknown ancestry ($35) working and complete. ugly orange paint.
A 2 ft by 3 ft cast iron railroad forge ($125) with a pump handle blower. Missing the wooden handle, belts and a blower that did not operate because of its furry occupants. Two hours to restore.

All in one stop at a garage sale. Luck of the Irish. I paid him his asking price on all of the tools and I think he thought he slicked a city kid.

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Type: CNC cut from 4" mild plate
Weight: 150# approx
Price: 15 cents a pound in 2006 + a job as a CNC operator or
friend with job as CNC operator willing to risk job ;)

The horn was roughed with O/A torch and finished with a flap wheel. No, it has no hard face and no hardy hole. Yes, those feet are just tack welded. That and the lack of a hardy make it a (another) work in progress ;) and yes it works GREAT for the price!

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Here's the ones I pretty much kept hold of; but I have owned and sold on a number more When I live in OH (1989-2004) I generally found a name brand anvil in good to great shape every year for less than a dollar a pound.

Note: *ALL* of these get used on a regular basis!

Brand: Arm and Hammer
Weight: 91 pounds
Condition: good using condition
Price paid and year: 1983, traded damaged 25# LG triphammer for it
My travel anvil. Springdale AR

Brand: Hey-Budden
Weight: 138 pounds
Condition: excellant
Price paid and year: US$125 1998?
Auction of an HVAC co with nothing for antique dealers or yuppies.
Lancaster OH

Brand: Peter Wright
Weight: 163 pounds
Condition: excellant
Price paid and year: US$100 1984
Yard Sale, Fayetteville AR

Brand: Trenton
Weight: 407 pounds
Condition: ravaged by weldors at a copper mine
Price paid and year: traded smaller anvil, (Peter Wright, 125#, $125, decent condition 1995, saw a large old postvise leaning against a barn while doing a test drive on a car, returned and bought vise and anvil from owner 1997) + a postvise screw and screwbox I had US$5 in. Invested US$70 in repair fees a couple of months ago. Fellow wanted a smaller anvil. I obliged. 1997?
Columbus OH

Brand: Fisher
Weight: 515 pounds
Condition: excellant
Price paid and year: US$350 1999
Columbus OH, uncle of a fellow I talked to at a fleamarket

Brand: Paragon? Sweedish
Weight: 63 pounds
Condition: Excellant
Price paid and year: US$0 2007
Ex-Rancher from my church who heard I was hunting one for the local College fine arts metals program.


Oh yeah; I bought a 55# HF cast iron ASO for US$28 around Y2k, the MOB made it into a propane stove; boy that cast iron drilled like butter!

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All of these can be seen in my gallery, These are the prices I sold them for to folks all around the country, just to give you an idea of what something is truely worth.

100# Hay Budden..............$400
201# Peter Wright............ .550
250# Fisher.......................500
150# Vise.........................125
85# USA ..........................145
129# Mousehole................185
100# Vulcan.....................225
120# Leg Vice...................175
100# Crosley Fisher............200
122# Peter Wright..............400
463# Hay Budden............. 2500
147# Three Holes Cast.......100
30# Vulcan.......................213
25# Vulcan.......................234
155# Recessed Fisher.........325
300# Fisher......................600
9# Enderes........................81
104# Mousehole................402
20# Fisher........................150
138# Unmarked Old English.....275
100# Fisher w/ Base.............665
135# Trenton Farrier............336
95# Mankel.........................480
95# Peter Wright.................200
135# Centaur Forge.............730
175# fisher.........................325
86# Hornless......................1350
150# Trenton Farrier.............510
101# Peter Wright................305
330# English + 100# Soderfors......935
95# Vise + 100# Village + 2 Tongs + Hardy.........487
131# Peter Wright.................304
154# Soderfors + Hardies......533.99
88# Trenton Top.................140
500# Fisher.........................2200
143# Hay Budden..................689
139# Peter Wright..................325
300# Columbian....................850
160# Peter Wright................350
120# Mousehole...................306
50# Vulcan + Hardy..............100

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Model 45 Kholshaw scales say 104 pounds
like new paid $235 2007

75 pound anvil with stump, no markings, on anvil OR stump
Trade for rewire of electrical in a bathroom in 2001

7ft x 4ft leather bellows with fire pot, my portable for Ren-faires
I paid $600 in 1998

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70 pound Vanadium Steel,
Located and purchased locally (the fellow brought it to me to look at),
Using the TPAAAT, before I had even heard of it.:D
$50 in Summer 2006
Good Condition, few dings on the face

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Was a painted lady-painted black with white highlights on the letters. Seller was gonna use it for decoration in his house.!

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125 lb. Sodorfors Sorcoress #5 in excellent condition with stand, about 150 pairs of tongs, farriers coal forge and misc. tools. $1,200 in 79-80.

115 lb. Colony Forge, pristine condition, part of 1,000 lb. lot costing around $1,200 delivered to Anchorage, around 94-95. Later sold for $400 around 2,000.

206 lb Trenton in good condition with some restoration to the face. $600 in 98.

Several RR rail anvils 45-75 lbs. Time and materials.

Frosty

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110# russian sub from HF (actually bought two, one for me and one for little bro) $95 +tax each - no sale

75# un-marked english style cast steel dug out of a hillside - free. also came with a 40# 4-inch leg vice also dug out of hillside

55# RR anvil I made from a piece found under the deck of a vacant house. Gave to friend/heighbor.

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