Doug B.

Good evening folks. I am 64, was raised in SoCal, retired, and moved up to Washington about 1 1/2 years ago. When I was 5 years old, my father drove the family back to Pike County Kentucky to see our Great Grandps and Great Grandma. This is the area where Hatfield and McCoys frequented. Behind my great grandfathers home was another dilapidated home that my Greatgrandfathers father lived. My Dsd asked if he could go have a look and my Great gf said he could and take anything home that was there. My father brought home this anvil, and a few oil lanterns from the local coal mines of which I still have one. I started working metal in high school a bit, so asked my dad for his anvil. He gladly gave it to me. I am thinking that was about 1983ish. I have been hauling it around since then. Yesterday I decided to remove some of the rust using CLR and a small rotary wire brush on my drill motor. I was able to uncover "BlackPrince, hapley hardw, St. Louis USA". From what little I could find online, mostly this group, I will look in a couple other spots for weight and serial number. Feels like a 90lb sack of cement to me. I will try and weigh it later. You said you all wanted the story" so here you go. I would like to set up a small furnace and make it myself, but still doing some things on the new house, to us anyway. How do I join the group? Doug B. Figured out the membership stuff, now to add some photos. The anvil is pretty beat up, but looks like someone may have added a plate on top at some point?