[TheForge] Old Anvils

[woolley]

I have a couple I would part with. They are in South Jersey, 
Philadelphia area.  Contact me off list if you want.



On 2/28/2011 7:53 PM, Ben Barrett wrote:
> I bought a ~210# fisher about 5 years ago, through the local classified ads,
> for $200 from a knife-maker, but that was an overly-reasonable deal from
> what I've seen (and some edges and the tip of the horn were badly abused,
> although the body of the anvil is great and has good rebound.  I haven't
> seen anything under $2/pound, since, and more often $3-$5/pound, but just
> want to make clear that the market value does not represent the unique
> circumstances which may be found :)
> There are a few anvil dealers around the country, whose listings I sometimes
> see on craigslist (one in SFbay and one around Phila, IIRC) who seem to
> regularly get top dollar for their resales.  I realize that a good anvil is
> generally "worth it" although I sometimes see them in the hands of
> collectors or even store-window displays going unused and mostly unloved,
> which is frustrating.  Here is a site-specific google search which should
> show you some blacksmithing anvils (and not the anvil roadie cases which
> commonly come up when searching just "anvil")...
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site:craigslist.org+anvil+-case+blacksmith
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:31 PM,<dann at wctatel.net>  wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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