I spent a long time looking for my first anvil and couldn’t find anything worth what was being asked, when my grandfather heard I was looking for one he gave me a 150+ pound Peter Wright that was slightly swaybacked and the edges were chipped badly in a couple of spots. He had it in the shop where they repaired heavy equipment, that was about 30 years ago.
My second anvil came from a body shop I was working at, it was sitting in the corner when I started a 108 pound Trenton with only a couple of very minor chips on the edges and a very flat face, when I saw that no one ever used it I asked the boss if they would sell it and he said no. A couple of years later we were doing a major clean up of the shop and the boss came over and asked if I still wanted it, I said yes and he said get it out of here, that was 20 plus years ago.
I think I’m over due for my next free anvil, a 200 pound pristine Fisher would be nice. J
Richard