![]() Please contact me, and I can give you an exact description of the anvil's dimensions. ![]() If you have any questions on this please contact me and I can go over the details and the specifics on the anvil you are buying. There are a small percentage of my latest shipment of 260# Classic anvils that will require some casting clean up. The vast majority of the anvils require very little work. One of the reasons the anvils I sell are such a high quality value is that I leave it to the customer to dress the anvil (radius the edges, chamfer the hardy hole if desired and do a small amount of cleanup that is associated with a casting of any kind). You will have some clean up work to do in order to make the hardy hole one uniform size in some of the 260# anvils in my latest batch, to meet off the shelf tooling requirements. Anvils similarly need some dressing as well. Usually a new hammer has to have the edges radiused and the peen needs to be ground to blunt the sharp edges on it. This is similar to dressing a new hammer. Most new anvils require some degree of dressing and clean up by the first owner of the anvil. Those of us who have only experienced used anvils, assume that a good, clean used anvil arrived in it's present condition when first delivered to the first owner. To put this in perspective, most new anvils require some degree of dressing by the first owner. If buy off the shelf steel and weld you hardy tools, this will impact you. If you forge your hardy tools from old truck or car axles this should not have any impact on your tooling. These are cast steel anvils and there is some degree of variation in the 260 lb Classic anvil's hardy size. If the base is a Hay-Buddin it would probably make the tool much more collectible imo.Dimensions of hardy holes in some of the 260 # anvils may vary by up to 1/8". No clue on the base either.you might want to strip it and look for some markings. If the base is a Hay-Buddin it would probably make the tool much more collectible imo.none of the old HB advertisements (and there are quite a few) show, or mention, a cast base that I see I'd carefully strip that grey paint off the anvil and stand with some low impact stripper. ![]() s a nice sized anvil that has a nice flat face and extra clean edges. It's very clean and the face and edges are real nice. Matchlessantiques is offering collectors and smiths this Beautiful 146 lb. If I had to guess I would put that anvil in the 1000.00 range or more to the right collector. The last old style serial # documented is 218321, and that anvil was purchased in 1914, but Postman puts a +/- 2 year guess around the old serial # systemĪdvertisements from 1913 through 1923 show over 100,000 anvils sold alone during that period. the anvil is from the 1913 to 1915 period.closer to 1913 or so since the # is quite high. There are at least a half dozen US companies making full size anvils, and another half dozen making much smaller farriers anvils. The proportions are slightly different because it is 550 pounds than many of the lighter weight anvils. Your serial # says that it's the old style original serial #system used before 1915. It looks exactly like any other hay budden anvil you can find photos of online. Per the Richard Postman book "Anvils in America" The company started making anvils around the late 1880's, and went out of business in 1926, selling "well over 300,000" anvils.currently "one of the most sought after anvils by both professional and hobby smiths".
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