Subject: Strange Anvil

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 16:40:42 PST

On Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:50:06 -0400  Thomas Boudreau wrote:

>   I have a question on anvils?  We have one in the shop with a short 
horn
>in the front  of it, like a stump! Possibly an armour's anvil? It has a
>unique shape and weights approx 350#. It dates back 17th, century, or
>earlier. Anybody know its use?
>
>  TOM: Fr. Nova Scotia, Canada  (YES,  we're still a Country!!)

It sounds like one of the "Wheel Wrights Anvils",  used for making the 
Iron rims on wooden wheels in shops that specialized in that sort of 
thing.  It shoud be fairly tall as well....
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