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I was surfing craigslist and came upon an ad by a collector who is selling his anvil collection! I really never thought that people collected anvils! He gives the following text, but no photos:


6,700 lbs.of Anvils - $16700

I am selling my collection of anvils, weights range from 65 lbs to 413 lbs., makers names include Hay Budden, Arm and Hammer, Trenton, Peter Wright and many others. There is a total of 47 anvils to be sold. Pricing is $2.50 per pound, buyer must take the entire collection, anvils,swage blocks, hardies.
There are no beaters in this collection, all have good edges, flat tables, strong horns.
If sold individually, these anvils would command $4 a pound or more.
I am guessing at the weight, in the event of a buyer with cash surfaces, he/she and I would have to weigh each item, and adjust the price accordingly.
I am NOT a dealer, this collection was my passion for many years.


http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/clt/1002287401.html
 
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Wow!! That could be a gold mine. I've seen older tool steel blacksmiths anvils sell for thousands. My buddy is a blacksmith and he works with vintage anvils. They have a certain "ring" vs. the clank of cast iron, or low grade carbon steel.
 
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I have a couple of anvils and was thinking of posting a few pictures just the other day. Like most things that I think about, I forget about them long before I get to doing anything about them. It is an old age thing. This morning, I got up with nothing to do, and by noon, I had half of it done. I left the other half to not do tomorrow morning. If I have time and remember, I will post my anvil pictures tomorrow.. Junk..
 
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Junkman said:
I have a couple of anvils and was thinking of posting a few pictures just the other day...........

I will post my anvil pictures tomorrow.. Junk..
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Please do. Elroy would find them of interest and would think others here would as well.
 
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My other anvils are in the rear shed, which is too far away to trudge through 2 feet of snow to get to. I have 2 more that are on loan, since I had no need for them, but friends did. This is the only one that I presently have in the shop. It was a real monster to carry into the house just to get a picture of it...
 

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funny this thread is here, last night i was looking at anvils at the store they weighed 70 pounds wish i could remember price
picked it up ....heavier than it looks
 
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I researched anvils a couple years ago, thinking I'd want to do a magazine story on them (Super Rod magazine, I had a section called Shop Talk).
There is a big anvil book that I found... it was horrendously expensive.

Real anvils, the vintage ones, have a top plate that is made from a different material than the horn and the body. I don't remember what that steel alloy is, but it's what makes the ring when you hit it.

Don't ever get a cast iron anvil, like HF and other cheap places sell--they splinter and flake off, not something you want when hitting them with a hammer.

I've noticed the standard seems to be about a buck a pound once they hit 100lbs.

-Brad
 
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Junkman said:
"little jewel"????? that anvil just about gave me a hernia moving it... What do you guess it weighs?????
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It looks rather smaller in the photo but Elroy might guess 120 pounds. Don't bust a gut and take care of them "jewels"
 
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Elroy said:
It looks rather smaller in the photo but Elroy might guess 120 pounds. Don't bust a gut and take care of them "jewels"
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Optical illussion...........:lol_hitti

I found this in the garage when I was little, when I pulled down a box that was on a very high shelf. I have no idea where it came from, or how it got there.
 

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Here is a few I have
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Rats. The Craigslist ad is gone. Must have been lots of people with $16K sitting around to buy anvils.

Did anyone save the test & pictures to share? Maybe in the browser cache?
 
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Well thanks for the info Elroy I tried to get parts once from my snap on dealer seeing that its labeled bluepoint but was told they are no longer made.
Hopefully wissota is still around I would like to replace the missing tool rest
 
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126lb Paragon/Soderfors Swedish, Tool Steel Face
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I am a member of the Houston Area Blacksmith's Association, I have attended several "hammer-ins", which are great opportunities to learn about and buy quality anvils. I have three anvils, a 126lb in pics, a 100lb Trenton, and a 55lb Hay Budden. For information about local blacksmithing groups, search the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America at www.abana.org
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For some pics of a really great anvil and tool collection see:
http://www.horseshoeingmuseum.com/index.htm
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When Elroy was in school he performed an internship at Robinson-Nugent. This internship resulted in the development of a method for the preparation of sample Insulation Displacement Connectors on Ribbon Cable for microscopic inspection of the wire / connector interface.

This anvil was in their prototype shop and upon completion of said internship this was "awarded" to Elroy . Actually he just took it. :shocking:

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Elroy, mighty fine looking portable there. What all goodies do you have stowed in there, makes me want to shove my mitts in there and root around a bit! :bounce:
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Actually that came home from Grainger Friday. It had some outrageous price in the catalog. Something like $150 plus. Company discount got it for like $40. Couldn't pass it up.

Put all my wire brushes, mounted stones, die grinder and dremel stuff in it.

26" long and it's packed top to bottom. It cleaned out some drawers in the main box nicely.
 
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I have a 224# Hay- Budden, a 95# Hay- Budden and a 50# Vulcan. My camera is dead and I'm on a new computer, so, no pictures.:(
 
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Do a search for anvils on eBay.

The prices may surprise you.

I didn't see the original linked Craigslist ad in the first post, but if the avils were top quality, it would have been a good investment to part them out at auction.
 
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:mad:I've also got a 1-foot section of railroad rail as well. I spent half an hour with a wire cup on my right angle grinder cleaning the rust and scale off it, masked the face and painted the sides of it with Rustoleum High Performance Red paint. That's been better than 10 years ago, and the face of the rail, which I've never painted or even retouched, is still rust free and "burnished" looking--even spending 7 years in Floriduh humidity.

Had another one at the same time, and a friend commented that he'd always thought about getting one. I gave him the second one, and the next day he gave it to some friends at a body shop where his car was being painted! :mad: It's true I gave it to him, but figured HE'D get the use out of it, not some guy in a body shop. If I'd have known he was going to just give it away, I'd have kept it and carved it into a more traditionally-shaped anvil with a horn.

-Brad
 
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There is an anvil made by Wright on NY craigslist , also another listing for a set of vintage Wright sockets. Check it out under Tools
 
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I use mine more then you'd think. Great for when I had to smash all the wheel studs out of my brake rotors when changing them on my truck.
 
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Brad54 said:
Had another one at the same time, and a friend commented that he'd always thought about getting one. I gave him the second one, and the next day he gave it to some friends at a body shop where his car was being painted! :mad: It's true I gave it to him, but figured HE'D get the use out of it, not some guy in a body shop. If I'd have known he was going to just give it away, I'd have kept it and carved it into a more traditionally-shaped anvil with a horn.

-Brad
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I gotta agree, I think that this is rather rude. I had a friend do that to me with a set of aluminum cylinder heads. I had a nice set that I pulled to install a set of AFRs, and since my friend had drooled over them for a while, I was happy to GIVE them to him for free, thinking that he would install them on his car and enjoy them as I did.

WRONG. He turned them on Craiglist for several hundred dollars! WTF??

Adam
 
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