Can anyone identify this

[threeputt]

I have an old anvil in my shop that has been there I know 51 years. I cannot find any marking on it but I have not yet took a wire brush to it. Maybe someone here has seen one of these. Tom

 

[osborn.ozzy]

I bet it weighs 100lbs

 

[threeputt]

I would not want to pick it up. I thought the same as you that it weighs 100 pounds but it is heavier than that. Older anvils are marked with a three digit number. Anvils were weighed according to the British system of measurement. The first digit indicated the number of whole hundredweight's, the second indicated the number of quarter hundredweight's and the last number indicated the number of pounds remaining. A hundredweight (abbreviated cwt.) is actually 112 pounds. A quarter cwt. is twenty eight pounds.

To calculate the weight of the anvil in pounds: multiply the first number by 112, multiply the second by 28, and add the two results to the third number. A 1-2-6 anvil is 174 lb. ((1x112)+(2x28)+6=174).
That would make mine weigh 140 pounds.