It's in great shape man, I have a Peter wright myself but it's only 145 pounder. So if it's 2 and 2 we know it's at least 226, just have to figure out what the center number is for accurate weight. This calculator does not have a place for tonnes. Middle number is 1/4 hundredweights, tho I agree it does look like a 19. 2240 pounds (20 CWT) and over is a 'long tonne'. He became a Member of the Institution in 1863. That's what I was thinking 2nd number has to be 1, 2, or 3. He died on 28th August 1874 in the 72nd year of his age. In 1862 he invented the parallel vice, and also an improved railway wheel. Date range given the foot shape is anywhere between 1870-ish to 1930-ish. In 1852 he invented the 'solid anvil' with which his name is associated, and which he was the first to make all forged solid in one piece by means of dies and by turning it frequently under the hammer during the forging, anvils having previously been always built up of a number of pieces welded together. The divots/punchmarks on the mark side opposite the weight are just where someone was playing or testing the temper of a ball punch. The system seems unweildly but if you use a balance scale and the proper weights you just count the large weights, and total up the small ones and you are done. In 1848 he invented and made the machinery for cutting the internal screws of vice-boxes out of the solid iron, making the ‘solid box vice,’ which he was the first to accomplish this he did by fixing the Screw-cutting tool vertically during the cutting, so as to allow the cuttings to fall away clear of the work. 2240 pounds (20 CWT) and over is a 'long tonne'. Peter Wright and Sons, of Dudley and Oldbury. This historic record of English anvil making is a real joy for historians, antique tool collectors and indeed blacksmiths the world over. On English anvils like Peter Wright, Mousehole, and so on, the weight markings are in the old hundredweight system. He made many improvements in the manufacture of anvils and vices, all of which were successful and this placed him at the head of the trade, as the senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Peter Wright & Sons of Dudley in the Black Country region of the UK were the most famous Victorian maker of blacksmiths anvils the world has ever known. Peter Wright was born in Dudley on 15th March 1803, and in early life commenced business as a vice and anvil manufacturer, a trade which had been carried on by his family in the same place for more than a hundred years previously.

Peter Wright (1803-1874) of Peter Wright and Sonsġ863 Peter Wright, Railway Wheel, Vice and Anchor Works, Dudley.

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