Fisher anvil weight markings10/2/2023 ![]() This forum has a sales site it's called "Tailgating". Resizing them is generally easy but the methods depend on what you are using to read this forum.) (This site has a limit on the picture size it will allow you to post. If you want to advertise it for sale you will need to know the weight and have pictures of the side(s) and face to show condition. They just don't know enough about anvils or are trying to pull a fast one on you to get it for less! Don't let someone tell you it's wrong as it doesn't ring. (I once owned a 198# swell horn HB farrier's anvil whose face was about half the width of a 91 pound A&H anvil.) Fisher's are known as a "quiet anvil" and do not have a loud clear ring when tapped-this is a feature and why they are especially prized by people working in cities and suburbia. Large farrier anvils can have a smaller width face and a larger "swell horn". Anvils used by farriers may have symmetrical edge damage on the sides of the face. Farrier anvils often have a clip protrusion from the side of the cutting plate and/or two pritchel holes in the tail. However the smaller anvils can be used by either craft pretty much interchangeably. If it isn't a farrier's pattern then it's a smith's anvil. If its a farrier's pattern it is a farrier's anvil. Your anvil is in very good shape with very little use. The offset mounting lugs were done some time in the 1970's I am still trying to pinpoint the exact year. Your anvil is a Crossley era Fisher, 1962 -1979. Could this be a very early example? Value? If it were worth a stupid amount of money I would consider selling it and use my other more beat up 155 lb. I use an anvil maybe once every month or so to straighten out some mangled piece of metal. I am more into fine woodworking, motorcycle building and hot rodding. I had always wanted an anvil to go along with all the other heavy as hell stuff I seem to want to move every five years or so. Eagle cast poorly in the right side and also "100" as shown. Edges original, very light to no hammer marks or scars on the face or horn, except one small weld spot, still slightly raised. Fisher Norris anvil in very good condition, I thought it might have been fairly new when I bought it. I do know there were many other original artifacts that stayed with the property. SO, this anvil may, or may not have been left behind when the citified nephew sold the place to him. He was the first to own the property outside of the original builder's family. I bought this anvil in '86 at the moving sale of the fellow from whom we had purchased a 1838 plantation house property. OK, I've searched the web trying to figure out when this anvil was manufactured and it seems y'all are the folks who might have the answer.
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