Thanks for helping out with your comment I will be going to see the anvil tomorrow and I will let you all know the outcome. i would be inclined to pay $800 for the lot if it is nearby in Sydney Australia. post account Posted 15 days ago Peter Wright Anvel - 700 (Manchaca) © craigslist - Map data © OpenStreetMap condition: good make / manufacturer: Peter Wright model name / number: Peter Wright 0 3 16 Stamp 0 3 16 or 100 US lbs Peter Wright Anvil made in England. may be worth $50 to $100 depending of the size of your wallet. You decide what it is worth for you, disregard the stand since it is scrap, and the vice? well. English Peter Wright blacksmiths cast ironsingle-horn anvil. There are desperate ignorant buyers and desperate ignorant sellers in every country.Īs for the purchase of those tools, the only thing of value is the anvil. I got about a 125 lb Peter Wright anvil, 'Western Chief' forge blower and blast pipe/firepot (hearth rusted out), and a Champion wall drill and a mess of odd hand tools for 200 bucks. If you want to be brutally mercenary about it, the wrought iron alone is worth more than fixing it back to a usable anvil would be. He had the contents of his late father's smith shop, closed in 1953 when his dad had died. The 50-75 range is what I'd expect to see it go for to a smith who knows what they're doing, although I've seen similarly trashed anvils in antique stores priced much higher. I rung the seller and told him that he would never sell for that price and that a fair price was $600. My second Peter Wright I got when a friend retired. ![]() I dismissed the ad for nonsense only to see that it did not sell and was re-posted. Many times they are a world apart.Ī few years ago I saw an add for a PW of very similar weight on ebay in Sydney Australia where anvil prices are even higher than where you are. It depends on what you are looking for in an anvil, and what you are willing to pay. But are Peter Wright anvils good There is no simple answer to this question. There is the asking price and there is paid price. Advertisement Septemby Collins Anvils are an important tool for blacksmiths, and Peter Wright is one of the most well-known manufacturers. Prices vary a lot with location, however there is something that is universal. In good shape with no swayback, has great ring and rebound. Markings say: Peter Wright Patent 2 0 12Īfter researching the numbers on google it weighs 236 pounds plus the vise and stand. Price: 500.00 93 pound Peter Wright anvil manufactured between 18. (Peter Wright Antique Anvil with handmade Blacksmith vise. I will be doing all the tests I can and will be trying to get it for closer to $1000.00 I’m in Orlando, Florida where it seems anvil prices are high all over Florida. Hello Frosty thank you for the reply I will most likely be mounting it seporately. If someone welded it to the stand they may have "repaired" it too and ruined the heat treat of the face. Otherwise the anvil looks to be in good shape but do a rebound test on it. Where ever it is I'd knock a couple hundred off my counter offer because it's been welded to a stand I'll have to haul to the scrap yard. but highway robbery in places in the upper mid west. A lot of things depend on location, tool prices are high on that list. If you put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many members live within visiting distance. Unfortunately we don't know where you are. It'd probably be fairly reasonable here but any blacksmithing tools go for crazy high money here. The English/Imperial stone (14 lbs) is still a common weight unit in the British Commonwealth in spite of the Metric system.Ģ0 US Standard or Canadian hundredweights equal one short ton (2000 lbs).If you do buy that, lose the stand and mount them separately. Some American-made and newer anvils use the US Standard (and Canadian) short hundredweight (100 lbs per unit) instead of the Imperial long hundredweight.įor historical reference, the long and short hundredweight relate to other units in the Imperial and US Standard measuring systems as follows:Ĩ stones equal one Imperial hundredweight and 20 Imperial hundredweights equal one long ton (2240 lbs). Such an anvil might also say "1-3/4 CWT") ![]() ![]() Example: 1-3/4, which would translate into 112 + 84 = 196 lbs. Sometimes a single number and fraction of long hundredweight is used instead. Second number is quarters of long hundredweights (28 lbs per), and third number is pounds. On Peter Wrights and some other brands using the 3 number marking system, the first number is the English or Imperial long hundredweight (112 lbs per unit).
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