[TheForge] New Anvil!!

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

I looked over mine and found no extraneous letters.  To be honest, the 
ACME stamped on the side is pretty hard to make out as the surface of 
the lower anvil is pretty rough.   Looks like it was patted up by hand 
out of clay.  

Charles

Ron Childers wrote:

>Rick, that sounds suspiciously like the same anvil I bought a few months ago
>in Thomasville, Ga. We negotiated the price; I paid the guy and went to get
>the truck. When I returned, another guy was hugging it. I said "Quit
>drooling on my anvil, you'll rust it". We exchanged pleasantries and I told
>him it was the very same anvil Wiley Coyote used to chase after the
>Roadrunner. By the way, an antique dealer told me yesterday an anvil isn't
>an "antique" until it's over 100 years old although A guy at the local flea
>mkt has several China cast iron ASO's for which he wants more than I paid
>for the Acme. I will look under the heel of mine, but I suspect it is an
>initial of Mr. Ulrich who forged it.
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>Ron C
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