[TheForge] Old Anvils

[dann at wctatel.net]

20 or so years ago,  I bought a ferriers' anvil  (guessing that it
probably weighed about 140 pounds) from an aging blacksmith. He was a
friend who had mentored me. That anvil had been in the blacksmith shop
when his grandfather had taken over, in 1925.    Last Fall,  I was
visiting with the son of my blacksmith mentor.  When I told him that I had
his grandfather's anvil, he was delighted at the chance to buy it back. 
He remembered his grandfather working on that anvil, and wanted to share
those skills with his adult son and teenage grandson. So I did the "right
thing" and sold it to him for the same $280 (estimated $2 a pound ) that I
had paid his father, all those years ago.

Tonight I had a call from a different fellow looking for a good used anvil.
As I am down to my last good anvil, I don't have an extra to part with.

Its been 3 years since I've seen a good anvil sell at auction, but the
last one that I remember was a high school shop close out, and that 120
pound anvil went nearly $500.  Anyone know what anvils are selling for
today.   I haven't priced the new ones, & haven't been to one of the UMBA
meets at Centaur Forge / Burlington, Wisconsin in nearly 8 years.

Dann