BlackSmiths Anvil SOLD

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This is my father-in-laws Anvil, as you can see it’s not small.

I think the casting date says 1879, I don’t want to wire brush it to better reveal the date as it will spoil it imo.

I‘m based near Silverstone, and can easily load it for a buyer collecting, as the images show it’s just over 1 metre long and weights 286kg or I can deliver it at a sensible cost.

I can easily sell this for maybe £6-800 but there’s a great deal of family history in the anvil (it’s been in the family for nearly 150 years) and it’s been passed to me so I’d rather it found a good home in exchange for a donation to Alzheimer’s Society.
 
Why not sell it on Ebay then donate to the Alzheimer's society, this way you can donate all of the proceeds rather than a token donation from whoever puts their hand up, so to speak?
Good choice of charity btw, it's a fair bet that a few on here will require their services in the not too distant future, me included given my family history!
 
I've put it on a couple of forums and if no one wants it it may end up on ebay, but his daughters are very emotional and want it to go to "someone who will love it" (I know what your thinking, and your right)

Since the house is the Old Forge and the anvil has sat out front since it stopped being a forge in 1969 I'd have left it there personally, would have saved me having to get it in a van at least.
 
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Boris7 said:
I've put it on a couple of forums and if no one wants it it may end up on ebay, but his daughters are very emotional and want it to go to "someone who will love it" (I know what your thinking, and your right)

Since the house is the Old Forge and the anvil has sat out front since it stopped being a forge in 1969 I'd have left it there personally, would have saved me having to get it in a van at least.
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This one on Ebay, not as large as yours but will give you an idea of expected sell price. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165391612728

I suspect 99.9% of anvils sell to blacksmiths seeing as they are a bit too big to use as a doorstop!
 
I know a chap who has well over a 100 which he bought over time around here, he says they sell for about £200 a go for standard size, nice when shotblasted and painted up, Im sure you will HAMMER out a good price for that big one.
 
Boris7 said:
I've put it on a couple of forums and if no one wants it it may end up on ebay, but his daughters are very emotional and want it to go to "someone who will love it" (I know what your thinking, and your right)

Since the house is the Old Forge and the anvil has sat out front since it stopped being a forge in 1969 I'd have left it there personally, would have saved me having to get it in a van at least.
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There is a pub/restaurant at Inverie called “The Old Forge” they might be interested.
 
The Anvil used to stand outside my Father in Laws house, with some tongs on top, about 25 years ago I received a phone call saying someone had tried to steal it, but they only got it a few feet down the drive and gave up.

I went down because my Father in Law couldn’t get his car out as the anvil was in the way.

Single handedly, I rocked it back and forth and moved it around the back of the house.

This week, I moved it back.

Took 3 days, three men, two skates, a pump truck and much swearing.
 
Some years ago a friend and I went to the closing down auction of a very old car and motorbike garage. We each bought an anvil, £5 each. He still has his, I sold mine a long time ago as I was moving house and it was just one of the 'one too many things to take'.
 
ah....this thread is where i saw the anvil.............came up to visit mt daughter and noticed an anvil putside her neighbours house,,,,,unusual thing to see outside a fairly modern house..........been wracking my brain as to where i had been reading about one......and hey ho this thread pops up again.....
 
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