Stick87

I've got one with copper faces made by Thor hammer in England, who also sells replacement faces in quite a few different materials. It's a four pounder which cost me fifty bucks off the tool truck a couple months back. I really like the copper as it hits a lot harder than the new urithane dead blows yet still doesn't mushroom pins like a steel hammer.

Thanks for the advise fellas, Frosty I'm out of Jamestown California. As a tool nut interested in just about all disciplines of tool use your right I'd rather have a perfect specimen but function is by far more important than form. Unfortinatley I don't know this anvils history beyond the fact that it was my great grandfathers, he was more of a furniture maker than a blacksmith so I doubt he bought it new and he took exceptional care of his tools which leads me to believe the majority of the damage occurred prior to his ownership. I'm also interested in it's aproxamate date of manufacture. On the side it has the Trenton diamond with solid wrought stamped in a circle below that and U.S.A. below that, on the front foot we have an upside down B with 172 right next to it and A21770 on the other side.

Where might it have been made and have any of you smiths ever used one?(are they any good) Also as a welder fabricator by trade I'm naturally inclined to weld up some chips on the edges of the face and a bunch of chisel marks on the horn, my concerns are softening/loosening the face and compromising the quality of the anvil.