[TheForge] Re: Anvil question

[Kenneth Mayer]

>Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:23:33 -0800
>From: Gabriel Cain <gabriel-theforge@dreamingcrow.com>
>
>Yesterday was a very good day:  I got my first real anvil.  Picked it up
from
>Bill Apple, at a Blacksmith swap meet in Seattle.  I like it very much.
Very
>superior to the "anvil" I was using previously.  My previous "anvil" was a
40ish
>pound piece of train rail.  Bleh.   I like real anvils. ;-)
>
>My question to the list:
>
>What kind do I have?  It is about two feet long, about 12 inches high, and
about
>3 1/2 to 4 inches wide (no ruler handy).  The horn is about 10 inches long.
It
>has  markings on the side like so: (forgive the ascii art. :))
>
> American
>     (horse shoe shape w/ (I think) "trade mark" stamped, one word above
the other)
> Wrought
>
>Does anybody know what kind of anvil this is?  (I have been looking online,
but
>that has not been going as well as it could. :))
>
>Thanks very much,
>Gabriel.


Do the ends of the horseshoe point down?  If so its a Hay-Budden made for
Montgomery Ward, sold as the "Horseshoe" brand.  Per Richard Postman's book,
page 290.  The weight should be a number appearing below the word "wrought".

Ken
:-)