<split off from another thread> I'm putting this up here because this is kind of morphed into talk about anvils and stuff and I have a question I just finally got my first anvil and it's a total junker but I figure it'll be a good project to try and make it nice again but my question is the Anvil is from Canadian blower and Forge Co and on the side there's numbers that say 0 668 what do the numbers mean

Probably the number of the pattern used to make the mold.

668 was the answer and the foundryman didn't know how to spell "oh"? Oh okay, Thomas is probably right or close to it. I' just feeling like a smart Alec right now.

Frosty The Lucky.

If I remember right the CB&F anvils were not high quality, kinda like the Harbor Freight ones today.