If you have any questions on this please contact me and I can go over the details and the specifics on the anvil you are buying. There are a small percentage of my latest shipment of 260# Classic anvils that will require some casting clean up. The vast majority of the anvils require very little work. Commonly used to mark anvil weights before the adoption of the metric system. One of the reasons the anvils I sell are such a high quality value is that I leave it to the customer to dress the anvil (radius the edges, chamfer the hardy hole if desired and do a small amount of cleanup that is associated with a casting of any kind). If you know about anvils, you know that Peter Wright was one of the best. You will have some clean up work to do in order to make the hardy hole one uniform size in some of the 260# anvils in my latest batch, to meet off the shelf tooling requirements. Anvils similarly need some dressing as well. Usually a new hammer has to have the edges radiused and the peen needs to be ground to blunt the sharp edges on it. There is lots of information online about Peter Wright anvils. We are passionate about vintage blacksmiths anvils and tools. Forged, wrought iron with a steel plate face. This is similar to dressing a new hammer. Stamped ENGLAND means this anvil was made after 1910. This anvil is work ready and would make an excellent choice for any level Blacksmith.
Most new anvils require some degree of dressing and clean up by the first owner of the anvil. This anvils reads PETER WRIGHT- PATENT, SOLID WROUGHT in a circle along with the stone weight markings of 0-3-24 which translates into 108 pounds,Also bares unique inspector markings of a two very detailed 'anchors' on the front ledge of the base. Those of us who have only experienced used anvils, assume that a good, clean used anvil arrived in it's present condition when first delivered to the first owner. To put this in perspective, most new anvils require some degree of dressing by the first owner. If buy off the shelf steel and weld you hardy tools, this will impact you. If you forge your hardy tools from old truck or car axles this should not have any impact on your tooling. These are cast steel anvils and there is some degree of variation in the 260 lb Classic anvil's hardy size. Dimensions of hardy holes in some of the 260 # anvils may vary by up to 1/8".
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