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Cast iron with a thin steel face, welding on cast iron and wanting it to take impact is rather a forlorn hope with it being so thin.

US$50 spent at a scrap yard will result in a much better item to hammer on.  If you are willing to buy that as a hardy holder and a horn it will work for those tasks.

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I do find some references to "Concordia Iron Woks" as a foundry around the turn of the century.  It's not an anvil any more (or possibly ever).  It's an anvil shaped object that has more historical value than anything else.  At 50 bucks, I'd buy it to sell for $ 75 to the current company listed as a foundry in Concordia for use as a decoration or as a "donation" to get preserved in whatever museum handles Concordia history.

The Concordia paper in 1922 reports the city owed J.H. Tieking money for the labor to install 2 lamp posts

But the paper also says in 1937:

"William J. Tieking, well known Concordia man, died suddenly, Saturday evening, while at work at his Blacksmith Shop on North Cedar Street. Mr. Tieking had been seriously ill a short time ago but had improved and was at work Saturday, when he collapsed. His death occurred almost immediately, presumably from a heart attack. He was 60 years of age.

Mr. Tieking was born at Flush, Kansas, Feb. 24, 1877. When a small child his parents died and he was cared for by relatives. He came to Concordia 21 years ago and had been engaged in the blacksmithing business ever since.

He was married Feb. 19, 1922, to Mary Kunkel, of Concordia. To this union four children were born, two preceding him in death. Surviving are his widow, a stepdaughter, Mrs. Kathryn Ketch, an adopted son, Harold and two sons, Theodore and William. Also surviving are two half brothers, Louis Getz, of Manhattan, and John Tieking."

Note that a brother is J. Tieking and that might imply it was made for/by him at the WJT blacksmith shop.

That's just some quick superficial research.  It's interesting to the local area as a historical object but not an anvil that you'd want to purchase for use.

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