Subject: weight codes

From: [email-masked] (Christopher Hobbs)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:01:02 -0500

I am looking for the weight codes, as found on an Armitage Mousehole and
other anvils, can anybody help me, thank you, Christopher Hobbs

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 20:08:36 -0400

Christopher, this is one of the "most asked questions"  and I have copied an
answer from another smith "Robert Vaughn" from several months ago.
Mike Schermerhorn

Anvils were weighed according to the British system of
measurement.  The first number indicated the number of
whole hundredweights, the second indicated the number of
quarter hundredweights and the last number indicated the
number of pounds remaining.

A hundredweight (abbreviated cwt.) is actually 112 pounds.
A quarter cwt. is twenty eight pounds.  134 pounds would be
indecated by 1 0 22.
Robert L. Vaughan