[TheForge] Peter Wright anvil

[Gladish Family]

Ralph said,

>    I ask because the two larger anvils have so many punch marks
> on the side
> of the numbers that it is hard to read them.  It looks as though
> someone did
> punched copper lanterns on the side of them.  Someone suggested
> to me at one
> time it might have been to check the hardness of a punch or
> chisel.......but
> that didn't make sense to me it being wrought iron and all.  I figured it
> was a bored welder with a chipping hammer -as they both came out of a
> machine shop where the father started as a blacksmith, and the son who
> continued the business was a fabricator...........and impatient
> as I recall.

I have a Trenton with the same feature, but the pockmarks are really small,
like prick punch size.
Have always wondered why somebody would spend their day hitting the side of
an anvil hundreds of times with something sharp, but it's just about got to
be part of some operation or other.
Andy g.