Oct 17, 2018 Hello, I am new to this forum and site. I have an old Trenton 160#Anvil which I don't know when it was built. Can anybody help me? Trenton, 160# Serial Number A105184. Sep 28, 2015 (the oldest 'dated' anvil of that design that I know is the 'tree anvil' as some people call it because of the 3 tree-like engravings on it above the date, which is 1533) An anvil that they used to have at the Higgins armory before it closed which they had listed as 1500s to early 1600s had feet and a body much like that. 'Anvils in America', (just published and by far the best work on the subject available!), and I think I found the clincher! 'There is one other diference in those anvils with the 'A' prefix. The number on the front of the waist under the horn is always a '4'. Somtimes the '4' is upside down.' This 'upside down `4' sure sounds like your 'T-Z' mark.
Anvil Names, Blacksmith and Farrier Anvil Brands, Trademarks or Tradenames:
Acme Ajax Alsop American-Ross American Skein and Foundry Arm and Hammer Attwood Stourbridge Badger Baker Bay State Black Jack Black Prince Bradley Brooks (Baker Vaughans Ltd.) Brooks and Cooper Buffalo Forge Centaur Forge (by Kohlswa) Central Forge (cast iron) Champion Charles Hadfield Cliff Carrol Columbus Anvil and Forging Columbian Harden Co Columbus Forge and Iron Cranberry CW Delta Denver Dural | DuraSteel Euroanvil Fireside Fisher-Norris 'Eagle' Fulton Grizzly (cast iron) Hay Budden Henery Wright Hercules Indian Chief Insonora J.E. Pilcher JHM Anvils Kim Bach farriers anvil Keen Kutter KL Kohlswa Lakeside Louisville Forged Anvil M & H Armitage Mankel MFC Hollow Core Mouse Hole Nimba NC-Tool Oak Leaf Old Forge Old World Onsteel | Paragon Pedinghaus Peter Wright Rat Hole Forge Record Refflinghaus R. Redding Rock Island Roberts Anvil Sampson SISCO (Swedish Iron and Steel) Sligo Snyder & Oaks Soderfors Southern Crescent Standard Star Trenton Trenton Indian Chief 'USA' cheap cast iron Valley Vanadium Steel Village Forge Vulcan Arm-Hammer West Wilkinson William Foster WT (Wholsale Tool - cast iron) Yost 'Y' in a circle |
Trenton Anvils History
This list is not all inclusive as many new anvil makers are constantly coming into business and small makers are still being discovered. Brands of many modern farrier's anvils are almost impossible to keep up with. Many anvils were made for resellers to be privately branded such as by Sears (Acme brand) and Montgomery Ward (Lakeside brand). Often these anvils had no name or logo marked on them permanently as the resellers had no way to do so. They may have had paper labels, stencils or decals. So if you have a no-name anvil it was probably made by one of the major manufacturers.