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I concur with wicon. I have one of those in my shop right now and have sold some in the past. I'll be adding that brand to the "Anvils Review by Brand" segment in this forum soon. Once I do please add your great example! Or you could start that thread now! I'm still working on the S&H thread. The weight 152kgs should convert to 335 pounds. Great anvils by the way! Great rebound and excellent construction.

Here is a very unusual S&H. South German style single horn Church Window with a chest, side shelf and a upsetting block on the working side. Has a bit of everything. You can see where the face has been beat down a bit and somebody had welded it up. 358 pounds and the rebound on this one is only about 75%. Dated 1907

I messed up and posted a different anvil today. Tomorrow I'll put up the one I mentioned here.

This saw makers anvils weighs in at 248 pounds and has about 75% rebound. Not as much as the previous S&H's listed here. Has an unusual wear spot on the face from repeated use at that corner. Dated 1905

That's a nice anvil you have there! I will be posting one very similar to it tomorrow. More than half the ones I will be posting belong to that friend of ours!! I hold his west coast stock for him since he's on the road so much. As far as quality? I've found that these S&H's are as good or better than Hay Budden's or any other old US or British made anvils. I haven't used any of the new US made ones to compare with. There is some of the other German anvils I've been playing with like S&S, Carl Schlasse and H W Holthaus anvils and really liked them. I will be starting treads on those later. I wanted to put up the entire S&H thread first but spread it out over several days.

How about this very unusual double arched hornless S&H anvil? It weighed in at 124 pounds with the welded on lugs. My friend carefully removed those lugs and has since sold it. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures other than this one. The face on this one is only an 1 1/2" wide. Nail makers anvil? Dated 1891. Below is a 292 pound S&H double horn in the south German style with a upsetting block. Edges have some chips but the face is in great shape and has excellent rebound. Dated 1924. In the below picture you can see how thick the welded on face is by those horizontal lines. I confirmed that by by sticking my finger down the hardie hole and felt for the edge in there.

Noticed that my old picturees won't come up anymore. So here's some replacements of this S&S anvil. Showing after I made a stand for it. For somewhere I got this advertisement on S&S anvils.

The next two S&H anvils are a bit smaller. The one on the right marked B058 is just 53 pounds. It is in the north German style single horn as seen with the squared shoulder transitioning to the horn/bic. Good makers stamps showing the "Forget Me Not" flower and the year stamps of 1914. The left one is 59 pounds and is a good example of the south German style single horn with the smooth transition to the horn/bic. Good stamps again with a year of 1891. Its weight stamps are on the other side. Both these little guys have excellent rebound. I use them at events where I have just a static display and only talking about what I do as a blacksmith and a prop maker.

I've been looking for old advertisements! I have them for several other brands but none for S&H thanks! Later today I'll be putting two small S&H's that have excellent makers stamps just like above with the Forget Me Not flower.

Thanks for the comment! Yes it does weigh that much. I couldn't lift them together with my little tractor.

Company was established in 1783 by Yohan Casper (Soeding). Söding joined with Halbach in 1860 to form S&H anvils. Information from the Greenwood Collection. The company was from Hagen, West Falen, Germany. I am still looking for info on when the company stopped producing equipment. The first S&H I will be featuring was my first one. A 460 pound south German style double horn with upsetting block. This anvil came out of the Hoesch steel mill in Germany. When they were getting ready to shut the mill down in 1971 they were just throwing equipment into the furnaces. The lead blacksmith there took this anvil home along with its factory stand rather than letting them melt it down. It sat in his front yard (thankfully he had painted it) as a decoration till after his passing and his widow sold it. A good friend imported it and I purchased it from him and he also gave me the book with information on the steel mill from it came. Even though the book is all in German I get a kick out it! This anvil along with all the other S&H's I have here have amazing rebound! I only have one that is under 90%, this one is at 95% and rings like a bell. The original S&H anvil thread went electronically bye bye recently and Glenn asked me to resurrect it. I have nine more to add on here! Stay Tuned!! The factory stand weighs in at 450 pounds.

Thanks for that advice!! I have two other anvils here awaiting paint removal and that may really help out. They just look wrong all shiny!

Here is another Soderfors I have in my shop right now. 334 pound North German style made in 1925. The previous owner sand blasted it and painted it all black to "make it look better". I removed the offending paint and only put some boiled linseed oil on it. Kinda wished I hadn't oiled it so it would get that nice patina again.

I've had a couple of anvils come through my shop lately with a angled side and I've heard the term of that feature called a "chest". One of which I posted last year in the Anvils section under JHB I think. I have another one made by Soding und Halbach here right now but don't have any pics readily available. One of the purposes of the chest was to help protect the anvil when using a striker by protecting the edge with a reinforced edge. The anvil pictured above has the chest on the opposite side to the ones I've seen or have had in my possession.

Another vote for a John Brooks here. That thick heel is one of the giveaways.

​Thank you for that information. That is exactly what I was looking for.

Here's a anvil that I'm trying to come up with a approximate date of manufacture. It has stamping that show " CA 368" and a "S" at the bottom. The scaled weight is 391. I guessing early 1800's by the style of the short horns on it and the fat waist. Only has a few chips on the face and still has great rebound!

In a recent shipment from Europe I had one of these anvils from JEB included. This example is 202 pounds and has the trademark church windows with stepped feet. I've seen several JEB's and it seems quite a few have the face worn or just depressed by use (not the unhappy kind!). Anybody else have a similar worn JEB out there? I know "Old World Anvils" is making these new now but I'm looking for info on the old ones like this one.

My wife and I come to AJ almost every year. Love the area! We also spend a lot of time in Mesa and Gold Canyon.

​Thanks Gergely for the kind comments and the information on its possible origins.

​Thank You for the kind comments!

Here's a new addition to my shop. A 170 pound "no name" hornless anvil I had recently brought in from Europe. I had just finished the stand and took her for a test drive today to find its personality. Got some nice curves and has decent rebound considering it was from prior 1850. Fairly quite compared to the two S&H's in the picture. I will be using this anvil doing demos at Renaissance and Pirate Fairs in my local area. .

I've been keeping an eye on the weather forecasts and there's a chance of rain each day. Low chances right now at 10-20%. The last two CA conferences I've been to it has rained. I guess we need to schedule a whole bunch of them to help out with the drought! For those camping out, be prepared! Remember the thunderstorm that hit Vista last year? Chance of thunderstorms this week too throughout central CA and Sierra foothills.

You're right, the darned "dove tail" rear end of the trailer is to steep to load this type of equipment. Wish I had bought a straight flat bed years ago versus this car trailer. I have shifted some back towards the axles.

I'm bringing a couple of my main shop anvils and vises for people to use at this event along with a truck and trailer load of equipment for tailgating. Mostly german anvils and vises. The two vises on stands are the loaners. I will also have a bunch of hammers, tongs and hardy tools in the truck. I am at nearly 6,000 pounds now on the trailer, any requests for additional anvils? I still have at home a Austrian style church window, another small Peddinghuas (under 200#), various S&H's and some large 600 pound plus north German style double horns. I had to preload for this event since I'm in Anahiem at the Star Wars Celebration convention till Monday.