Wyatt Kindler

Thanks for the info, yours sure is a beauty. Seems like pretty much perfect condition. The stone weight and the flat part on the feet together really seems to indicate a PW, plus the shape like you mentioned.

Thanks for the information Frosty, and I'm always looking to buy more anvils to impress with. Just couldn't pass this one up for 50 bucks.

I picked up this anvil for $50 about a year ago. Obviously it's in pretty rough condition with the heel being broken off, but the edges are in usable shape and the face is relatively clean with some minor pitting. It has about 80-85% rebound and weighs exactly 200 pounds as is. I know that this anvil was made before 1898 in Germany by H. Boker and is marked as 234 pounds but I have a few questions. First off, about what year was this anvil made and where in Germany? (What factory/forge produced it?) Secondly, how was this anvil made? Was it forge welded together from multiple pieces since there is evidence of forge weld lines (other than the face plate weld), Or was it entirely forged under a hammer from one block of wrought iron with a face plate welded on? My final question for now is, is this anvil rare? I've only seen a few other anvils exactly like this one on the internet but never around this size (The largest being 166 pounds). The others I've seen had *rare* highlighted in the title. P.S. How would the heel break off? Was it from forging a hardy tool with sledges and the (possible) butt welded heel simply snapped off? Thanks for any info.