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Hi all
I have just the past few days acquired an anvil, for the rather good price of £100
I took a wire wheel on a grinder to the surfaces of the anvil and cleaned it up a bit, i feel the condition is perfect for me personally as a 19yr old first time hobbyist blacksmith. But there is no denying it’s seen better days.
I could just make out some very feint stampings. So after a bit of chalk and taking rubbings of the stampings I worked out the 3.3 was the weight, 3.3cwt, which was still nearly correct as I then put it on some scales and it came to 25stone 11pound which is as good as 3.3cwt
the other stampings I was unsure about as I don’t know a lot about anvils. After putting some pictures on Facebook, someone said it might be a HILL so I had another look and to my great satisfaction I could just make out the H and the two Ls and also the I above and one or two letters of Birmingham.
So that answers that, what I want to know is did some anvils come without a step/cutting table? Mine doesn’t have one. It’s just the table/face/deck and the horn
Also what sorta metal is it? Forged on steel face?
All forged steel?
Cast?
And again really what sorta age might it be?
Many thanks in advance everyone
