Thank you all very much for the feedback. I have another anvil (also been in my family for 2 generations) but it is in awful condition. I have a piece of railroad track that I used when I first started smithing that is much better than it. I have not forged on the PW yet, I am waiting until this school's semester is over. I am one of the dreaded university history professors, dun dun dun! However, I assure you, I am not the "typical" professor either (more like the opposite.)
Anyways, Marc1, your point is well taken on the price system. Do I sense a fellow Austrian economist? It is not often that I see others talk accurately about the price system in a free market. Alas, the "value" is indeed a subjective value, as it should be in a free market.
Nobody Special, thank you for the suggestion on deadening the ring. I am 33 years old, and I have lost about 20% hearing in my left ear and tinnitus in both, compliments of the Taliban and RPG's. Side not, I have (had them, I cant find them now) some earplugs that are also headphones that work magnificently, PW Sound I think is the brand name.
In sum, I will treat my anvil with the respect it deserves (and out of respect to my forbearers) and hopefully my oldest son (he is nine) will take it when he is of age. He loves to work with me in the forge, and watches Forged in Fire in his spare time.