ArcherKN24

Oooo, I like that one!

I count that as the eleventh photo, so one of those photos didn't get mentioned.

What did you think would happen on a forum page titled "Dating a post vise"? Honestly though, reading all this has made me totally forget the question I wanted answered! Oh well, I'm certainit will come back to me eventually.

You wanna quiet down a loud ringing anvil? The old retired smith that showed me how to move metal always this. "When you don't want an anvil to sing, muffle it's mouth with chain"! Wrap some heavy chain around the waist of the anvil maybe 4 or 5 times, and any kind of ringing should be gone.

I don't mean to offend, and certainly don't find any fun in poking holes in your "selling point" theory. And maybe I missed it further down, but since this comment was from 2018, I'm a little shocked that I'm the first to chime in! 2000 year old anvils were almost certainly going to be stake anvils (a block of metal of the desired form with a spike at the bottom for driving into large tree stumps). There are many european anvils still in existance from 500 or even 600 years ago that have feet. And at one point I've seen pictures of a type called a bridge anvil (like an anvil and stand all in one that had an open arch under the main mass), and I think those started appearing in the late roman empire.