Used your method.
Have to tell SOMEBODY:
First stop - Dad (He is 81).
Me: "Dad...do you know of anyone that has an Anvil they don't need?"
Dad: "Yup, there is one in the barn at the ranch in East Texas"
Me: " Can I have it?"
Dad: "Yup"
Dad: "You know...that was Uncle Collie's Anvil. He was a Farrier in WW 1 and that was his Anvil."
Me: "xxxx xxxx, ...are you serious?"
The anvil turned out to be a 125# "Made in Sweden" SIS CO "Superior". Edges are toast, <was> rusty xx xxxx.
Vinegar bathed it, rubbed with Baking Soda, rubbed with boiled linseed oil.
Came here looking for stand ideas - prolly just finish off with a oak stump.
THANKS!