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Thanks for the reply. Man, now you've got me really geeked out. Found a steel ball bearing and then gave the plate a quick blocking with some 80 grit to remove years of dust and filth and lo and behold it bounced. It bounced higher than the height at which it was dropped and just kept on bouncing until it fell off. I really hope this is a good thing as I really have no need for a paper weight of this stature. As for weighing it, that's a negative Ghost Rider. I can barely move it let alone lift it and I have two herniated disks from lifting heavy shit already. I seriously doubt my bathroom scale could handle it without squishing into a million bits of Chinese bathroom scale. I have a 2 ton gantry so I think I'll ask around (TPAAAT ) to see if anyone I know has a scale for a crane. I'm usually the guy who has two of everything so you know I'll be on the lookout for one now. Question... Should I sand blast this thing to clean it up? I live right next to the ocean and old iron can flake pretty good if not kept well. This one isn't bad at all but I was curious.

Howdy folks, y'all seem to be the ones to seek for help with all things anvil so here's mine. I've had it on the floor in the shop for years and never really paid any attention to it until I needed to pound something out and had to move it. Holy cow this thing is heavy!?! So I went down the rabbit hole like l had an anvil tied to my waist (ha ha) and found out it's a Hay Budden. Pretty cool... Then I start cleaning it up a bit and here's a serial number. Looks like 69056 which means nothing to me. I did find the numbers 4 and 0 stamped under the Brooklyn mark but the center digit is gone. The anvil is 31 inches bow to stern and 4.5 inches wide on the plate. It stands 12.5 inches high and the base is 12w X 11d. I can barely move it around on the floor so I'm assuming perhaps incorrectly that this thing weighs 400 freakin pounds? Any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated as smithing will be my next trade to conquer if my wife will allow it. It's only fire honey what could possibly go wrong?