Peter wright anvil $100...$5008/16/2023 ![]() His family was Quaker and he based many of the ideas for his communities on Quaker ideas. Henry Wright was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1878. He loves to work with me in the forge, and watches Forged in Fire in his spare time.Fisher Antique Anvil Collection - Aumann Auctions In sum, I will treat my anvil with the respect it deserves (and out of respect to my forbearers) and hopefully my oldest son (he is nine) will take it when he is of age. ![]() Side not, I have (had them, I cant find them now) some earplugs that are also headphones that work magnificently, PW Sound I think is the brand name. I am 33 years old, and I have lost about 20% hearing in my left ear and tinnitus in both, compliments of the Taliban and RPG's. Nobody Special, thank you for the suggestion on deadening the ring. Alas, the "value" is indeed a subjective value, as it should be in a free market. Do I sense a fellow Austrian economist? It is not often that I see others talk accurately about the price system in a free market. I am one of the dreaded university history professors, dun dun dun! However, I assure you, I am not the "typical" professor either (more like the opposite.)Īnyways, Marc1, your point is well taken on the price system. I have not forged on the PW yet, I am waiting until this school's semester is over. I have a piece of railroad track that I used when I first started smithing that is much better than it. I have another anvil (also been in my family for 2 generations) but it is in awful condition. ![]() Thank you all very much for the feedback. Yet he told me it was priceless and he will never sell it. The anvil was a large one but was virtually useless with a massive deformation in the face that went 2" deep and 10 inch long. A friend of mine has a PW who belonged to his father who repaired vintage car bumper bars on it cold. Having said that, the term valuable in my view refers more to a subjective appreciation than a cold price assessment.Īnvils tend to generate a lot of emotional baggage for some reason, and that tend to distort their real or percieved monetary value. So a PW can be more 'valuable' in one place than another. Distance and the lack of free flow of information makes the market less than free and transparent, and that gives lots of variations in price according to location. The above is he dictionary definition of how price is formed in a free market. This rate is usually expressed in money terms as a price. The value of a good is the rate at which it exchanges for other goods. If you want a workhorse that will not break the bank, you can do much worse than a PW If you want to buy top range, buy a Refflinghaus. The 250 is in much better nick, from being in a garage, hidden under a tarp for 40 years. had a previous hard life and the horn and table have a substantial depression, most likely from cold work on it. I have two, one is 250# and the other 450#, and there is nothing I can not make on those anvils. Don't abuse it and it will last 3 more generations. Lastly, I have no intention of selling it due to the immense sentimental value attached to it (and the fact that I forge regularly and its the best anvil I have ever had) but for its own sake, how much do you all think this is worth? I live in rural Missouri if that helps. It weighs approximately 158 pounds, though I doubt the scale is very accurate, it always says I weight more than I really do -)Īre all PW anvils wrought iron? In other words, do some have a separate piece of steel welded to the top? The anvil is gorgeous and rings like the liberty bell.īased upon the other posts I have read about Peter Wright's anvils, it would appear this is a pre-1900 model. It is amazing what a wire wheel, emory cloth, wet/dry sandpaper, Liquid Wrench, and WD-40 can do. I haven't posted here in a very long time, but I recently got a Peter Wright anvil (it was willed to me.) It was my great grandfathers, and he used it for shoeing the horses and apparently as a counterweight on his tractor! The pics I have posted below is how it looked when I brought it into my shop, and then after I cleaned it up.
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