Your anvil looks much nicer than mine, Great find! Where is the serial number on a HB? On the base below the horn on the feet, might need to take a wire brush to it to find the numbers.
Ronaldac Registered. Scott Subscriber. The pattern is called " Farrier's swelled clip horn anvil". The pattern is called " Farrier's swelled clip horn anvil" Thanks, My friend didn't know and I've only seen the regular styles, Ron. Must be easier to open the horseshoes on that larger horn. Yes, fit any size Hoof! Only to heat and beat them again! I want to thank all that replied You will have to send a personal email as I do not see an option to turn on automatic notifications on replies here, and Do not visit here often, Once again Thanks for sharing the info!
Ron Costanza. Rockdiver Registered. I just recently bought a Hay Budden anvil Ser Curious what year it was made. It has a 56 stamped on the opposite side of the MFG name. Any help would be great Thanks. George Best Registered. For many years I had a Hay Budden lb farriers anvil with the swelled horn and clip. Wasn't in the greatest shape, but I had a hard time selling mine as farriers anvils have such a narrow surface that people wanting to blacksmith aren't interested.
A few years ago I did get another HB which is a blacksmith anvil and weighs lbs. I did an image search on Google and did not find any with as sharply curved a horn as this one.
Does anyone know what kind of work it was intended for? Below are some image thumbs from ImageShack presented in the order in which they are mentioned in the message above. I hope it is considered appropriate to use this technique to insert images and conserve server space. Are you sure there's no other number? A five-digit H-B starting with a 4 looks like a 4 to me dates to around If it's a 1 it's That would put it in the early range where it would be a wrought iron body with a steel top plate.
After about they switched to a steel top half. Any heavy work thereafter would cause deformation. I suspect somebody milled the face to take out a bit of sway thus removing the hard steel , then mushroomed the edge, then milled the side, then kept working.
All that milling on the side is why the horn looks off-center. As for the little bick iron, those almost never have makers' marks on them, and are often shop-made for a job only the smith who made it may be able to say.
A lot of smith's tools fit that description, unfortunately. I should add the the milling machine and the surface grinder are the most lethal predators of old anvils. Starting in the s, the machinist mindset took over. According to this idea, an anvil face must be perfectly flat with sharp corners and must be parallel with the base. Trouble is, the old forged anvils are almost never flat, square, or parallel. There are 40 pages on HayBudden. Over pages in all. Reading Postman would tell you where they fit in the scheme of things - history and quality wise.
Hay Budden is a well respected and sought after maker. The date mfg is for I dont know about the base. My gut feeling is it not origional. Maybe it is time I re-read the book myself. I see real world prices all over the map on anvils. Originally Posted by peter. Originally Posted by SBLatheman. Originally Posted by John Madarasz.
Per the Richard Postman book "Anvils in America" The company started making anvils around the late 's, and went out of business in , selling "well over ," anvils If I had to guess I would put that anvil in the City: Joplin, MO. Posted: 4 months ago. Posted: 5 months ago. City: Yuma, AZ. City: South Bend, IN. City: Buffalo, NY. Posted: 6 months ago. City: Rockford, IL. City: Knoxville, TN. City: Sierra Vista, AZ. Posted: 8 months ago. City: Cookeville, TN.
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