[TheForge] EK has new steel junkies....;-)

[John Husvar]

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From: "Phlip" <phlip@99main.com>
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Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] EK has new steel junkies....;-)


> Dan Tull skrev:
>
> > > Our anvils, too, ran the gamut, from several high quality modernish
> anvils
> > > (one was a Peter Wright) to a Mousehole (about 200 years old- that
style
> > was
> > > last made in 1796) to a large selection of RR track anvils, from the
> > chunks
> > > of track I had purchased to give to the people who took my forge
> building
> > > class, to the various modifications I and Johan had made to make the
RR
> > > track anvils into something closer to a modern anvil. Grimbold brought
> > > several useful chunks of steel, too, ranging from small anvils made in
> the
> > > Medieval style, to special purpose anvils.
> > >
> > Mousehole didn't start producing anvils until 1794.
> > M&H Armitage appeared in1827.  til 1933 all in the old English pattern.
>
> Well, I was going on what John Husvar said- he told me they stopped
punching
> the hardy and pritchel holes in 1796 (I believe) and these are punched.
>

Yep, and I have been going on what someone here on theforge told me and what
a website writeup said, lo these many years ago.

Only information I have and I could have gotten the dates bassackward.
Wouldn't be a first. :)

Would more accurate information be found in Postman?

I do recall reading that the earlier (est?) Armitage Mousehole anvils could
be distinguished by bulges under the heel caused by the hardy and pritchel
holes being punched and that Armitage adopted another method of making those
holes in about 1796.

Jim McCarty sold me that old anvil with a forge and some other things when I
first started hammering iron. However old it is, it's served me well for a
long while and now I've passed it on to Phlip on loan, where it'll likely
put in several more years' work.

I figured it to be well over 200 years old, though it doesn't look a day
over 135 to me.

I'd be thankful for any information any of you might share about it.

John


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