Name/Title
AnvilEntry/Object ID
2014.13.1Description
Anvil, Peter Wright patent, iron with brown patina, speckled white paint on top and sides, base stamped "WRIGHT / [PA]TEN[T] / ENGLAND* / [S]OLID / [WROU]GHT" along with numbers 0 3 5**, white (paint?) spot at top left on one end with letter D stamped on either side of lower section [believed by ETHS Collections Committee member] Buford Blanton to be inspector marks], 9"h x 20 1/2"w x 3 3/4"d, after 1910*.
* In 1910 England passed a law requiring that all china, etc. for export was to be marked with the word "England." It is presumed that the law applied to anvils as well, so later Peter Wright anvils bear the word "ENGLAND" just below the word "PATENT." It is believed that Wright anvils changed to two piece c. 1930. per book "Anvils in America" by Richard Postman, 1998.
** Older blacksmiths' anvils are often stamped with a three-digit number indicating their total weight in hundredweight, quarter-hundredweight (28 lb), and pounds. Thus, an anvil stamped 0 3 5 is (3 x 28 lbs.) + 5 lbs. or 89 lbs.Made/Created
Manufacturer
UnknownDate made
1910 - 1930Dimensions
Height
9 inWidth
20-1/2 inDepth
3-3/4 inWeight
89 oz