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Try using the regular face of the hammer al let it drop from right around 10" up. Just lightly hold the end of the handle to keep it steady. ( brush the rust off the face of the hammer first) 

the way you were doing it won't tell you much but it did show "some" rebound. 

Dont worry, if it's a good anvil ( which I think it is) you shouldn't dent it dropping a light hammer like that from higher up. They are way tougher then that. ;) 

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Ok so with a clean hammer face it seems like the bounce comes back to almost the same height as the drop point, about 9" from a 10" height.

I cleaned it up and she stopped by the house last night, I told her everything I had learned about the anvil and that is was prolly worth between 6-800 bucks in our area which was beyond my budget. So with that said I was going to bring it back to her place on the weekend. She really appreciated the information as knew I had a very keen interest in the Anvil. So she offered it to me for $400. I could not say no.

Now I just have to devise a base for the xxxx thing, any suggestions? One idea is to sink an H beam into the ground outside the garage door to my shop off to the side and put it there, I can cover it with a garbage can when not in use to protect it from the elements etc. I would like to put it on some kind of base with wheels which you be idea but not sure how smart having 300# of rolling iron in the shop would be.

Thoughts?

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$2:63 a pound an excellent price on the left coast for a great anvil and you feel good about doing the right thing too. 

WELL DONE!

As for stands; there is a large number of examples here, including some with tip up wheels!  (both metal and wooden versions...)

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I don't know how you are doing your search but both: anvil stand iforgeiron.com and anvil stand iforgeiron.com images had good hits using chrome on Windows 10.

Note however that some stands shown are not necessarily good ones---like the horizontal crisscross where they maximize the energy lost in the stand vs vertically oriented pretty much the same amount of wood.

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