April 15, 200818 yr 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.
April 15, 200818 yr Author A Vulcan, a Fisher, and the third anvil unknown. Brand see photo Weight marked 1-2-12 = 180 and weighed 178# Condition see photo Price $200 in May 2007, WV, USA Hammer in
April 15, 200818 yr Author Brand scrap Weight 75# Condition see photo Price $0.00 Free 2005, Steel Yard drop from cutting a hole in plate steel
April 15, 200818 yr Brand, Henry Wright Weight, 169 pounds Condition, when i got it, badly chipped around the sides and had a swayback , see photo , PICT0036 - Blacksmith Photo Gallery , after repairing, good as new, see attached photo Price 120$ with stump
April 15, 200818 yr HB 126# excellent $111 2002 Vulcan 100# good free 2005 homemade 100# excellent free 2000 There have been about 10-12 in there also over the last8 yrs. I keep upgrading. They have ranged from 100# to 475#. I just sold an excellent 166# Fisher last week for $400
April 15, 200818 yr Brand: Harbor Freight Cast steel Weight: 110Lbs. Price: $70 (on sale) Condition: New Year: 2007
April 15, 200818 yr 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.
April 15, 200818 yr 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!
April 15, 200818 yr 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!
April 15, 200818 yr 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
April 15, 200818 yr 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
April 15, 200818 yr 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. $50 in Summer 2006 Good Condition, few dings on the face Was a painted lady-painted black with white highlights on the letters. Seller was gonna use it for decoration in his house.!
April 15, 200818 yr Brand: Northern tool cast Iron Weight: 54.2 Condition: the moon has fewer craters Price paid and year: $25 2008
April 16, 200818 yr 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
April 16, 200818 yr brand: vulcan size:200 pounds year:2006 i think condition: good price $500, steep i know but i live in hawaii and this was cheaper than shipping, on most anvils.
April 16, 200818 yr I have 2, one is a 75lbs. the other is 125lbs. both were free and neither have any kind of markings on them.
April 16, 200818 yr I have 2, one is a 75lbs. the other is 125lbs. both were free and neither have any kind of markings on them. wow thats just rude lol.
April 16, 200818 yr my first one peter wright 333lb was free,100lb vulcan $100,82lb hay budden $125,130lb peter wright $150,my new 224lb vaughan $2000+300 TAXES.
April 16, 200818 yr 109 lb. Peter Wright.........well worn but solid.........$175 Also have several 'chunks of iron' that i use........all were free
April 16, 200818 yr 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.
April 16, 200818 yr 174# Euroanvil - Feb 2003 - New - $340 110# ASO (Anvil Shaped Object) - Mar 2006 - New - $110 ASO purchased for sledge hammer work outdoors (Not worth much else...)
April 16, 200818 yr HF Russian about 110 pounds, around $ 100 115 pound Peter Wright $150 124 pound Wilkinson $150 Finnr
April 16, 200818 yr Cast by Renato Muskovic 375lbs new $1800 2004 Cast by Renato Muskovic 633lbs new $2800 2008 (Traded for Scotchman ironworker for which I paid $500)http://www.carrozzeria.ca/SiteImages/Anvil-633lb.jpg
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