I did buy two new anvils... the Nimba 260 lbs. and the Rat Hole 460 lb.
The Nimba 460's don't do it for me... But the Nimba 260's has the right look what with the feet... it is a cute little pig that is great to work with. I know, mass and all.... And the Nimba 460 is a solid sucker right down to the base. But I couldn't warm up to the look of it. The Nimba 260 I can look at and work with all day and not grow weary of it.
Now the 460 rathole... Once you get out the angle grinder with an american made bronze or brass knotted wire wheel on it to "plate" or heat transfer the lower, nonworking parts of the 460 lbs rathole, you have an anvil that seems smarter than you.
The combination of the Nimba 260 and the rathole 460 is a lifelong tooling set up that will be in great shape when my time on the planet has passed.