Probably the roughest excuse for an anvil I have seen. Appeared on an on-line selling site for $40. Listed as 'home-made anvil'. When is an anvil not an anvil??

 hollow? 1/4" thickness?  no substantial mass anywhere? That's an insult to anvils everywhere when that honorable name is used for the likes of that. Even cast iron is less rediculous, at least in that it has mass.

Well, I'm not a conservative on the anvil subject, but I can't consider this piece of art as an anvil. No fat at all under the face. Definately not understand the square pipe part.

Maybe a rough dog sculpture...  But it still needs ears and the tail is kind of misplaced.

As far as the question you asked: when there is no ability for rebound I think the anvil concept is lost.

Bests:

Gergely

 

In an anvil poor country like Australia everything goes. A light piece of rail is considered a commodity worth selling on ebay.

Then again if someone wants to beat up a bit of 1"x1/4" flat bar into something resembling a knife, who are we to object the abject object that is the object of this objection? 

After all the buyer can fill the hollow parts with concrete and add some mass this way ... right?

Gentlemen,

It IS an anvil named     "FIDO".

SLAG.

Try to do a rebound test on that, betcha it would balance the bearing ball on its nose.

I think it is a steel drum...and should produce enough volume that it would easily cut through the sound of the rest of the marching band.

If the top part happens to be solid then maybe it is an anvil that needs to have a bunch of plate steel removed.

Fido The Door Stop for the barn.   Doubles as a boot scraper.

It's an anvil, but it's a total dog.

Wouldn't give a quid for it!

You guys don't say quid ... ?

However, on the same site, this ad appeared. At least these are real anvils. The seller wants $10 per pound. Quite a few bucks there at that rate. 

On ‎12‎/‎17‎/‎2017 at 1:10 AM, Gergely said:

Maybe a rough dog sculpture...  But it still needs ears and the tail is kind of misplaced.

That is what I thought when I saw it, looks like a dog.

 Am I the only one who's seeing a seal? Looks at those legs, or flippers more so!

Omnivorous reader.

3 hours ago, Meadowgrove said:

 Am I the only one who's seeing a seal? Looks at those legs, or flippers more so!

Now I do see the seal. Better watch out with all the white sharks out there.

Yeah a seal. It just needs a ball balanced on it's nose.

Frosty The Lucky.

Is anvil snobbery an affliction or inalienable right? Someone did a fairly decent job welding this up (look closely at the welds), probably for a very specific purpose. Anvil?...maybe....absolutely if hammer was taken to hot steel successfully. Worth $40.00, now that is very debatable....not even worth $1.00 to me.

maybe it's a grinder frame

 

Yes - it's a seal, but as an Anvil, it is a Bust.

I'm thinking it's the lifetime warranty version of the reindeer law ornaments you see this time of year.  Guaranteed not to blow over in a bad snow storm or your money back.

As an anvil or a sculpture, it wouldn't get my seal of approval.

The seller is just fishing around trying to flipper it for a quick bark. 

Could have been a pig in a poke, but I see we have let the cat out of the bag.