DirkR

23 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

How about a picture of the bottom of the anvil, the shape of the possible indentation can be quite specific; though the weight on the left front foot and the serial on the right front foot is indicative too.  It may have lost a pound or two when they ground the feet down and drilled the mounting holes; but if the ball bearing test is good then it's a good anvil no matter who made it!

Can you repeat it using a yardstick to get an objective number?

128# is a great size, still small enough to travel with but large enough to do a lot of work on it.  Pair it with a striking anvil and you're golden even if you want to do heavy work.

Hi Gentlemen 

Here is the bottom. I think the stamp to the left of the numbers is a K. Stamped sideways as my camera was not. 
my bathroom scale says 125#. 
sure appreciate you all. 
im going to silicon the bottom to slow the ringing?  That sound like a good idea from other posts.  Only dry or wet?

thanks again. DirkR

I did the bounce with a yardstick in several places all about the same.  Dropped ballbearing from 20 inches and it came back to 15. Pretty consistently. 
raining here today so not outside much. 
Thanks Dirk

I’m back. Learning my way around   But .... very slowly. The numbers are 128  87748. 
I can’t find any discernible image but there looks to be some sort of small stamp to the left of the numbers. 
It rings and a ball bearing bounces almost to drop point. 
ive always wanted to work with metal so I’m starting. 

This is a high school dream but I had no idea what all I didn’t know.   I swapped a hand gun for this anvil but don’t know anything about it. Can somebody help?  Thanks ahead.