What happened to this anvil?

Hail damage maybe?

 

Appears to be cast. 100 pounds for $275.

"Rare texturing anvil, excellent condition!"

Poor things been chiseled to death.  

I'd sure check to see if it was CI!  Hard to do a bounce test on it but it looks soft.

Above the front feet is marked 100. It also has a visible casting line under the horn

Axe practice?

Someone needs to call APS (anvil protective services)

Maybe it went thru a fire amd the face lost its hardness. So it became the tool to test the hardness of chisels, picks and the like.

Looks like a curmudgeon chewed on that thing   T-Rex chew toy?

Messy divorce?

Remedial Class instrument for the Anvil Chorus?

Was it a door stop for the bank vault door?

Shooting the anvil (many times).

Ogre teething ring.

That was definitely a trolling comment.

Nah; when I'm fishing for compliments I use dynamite....

Reminds me of the joke about the game warden who went fishing with an old guy.

The guy lights a half stick of dynamite & throws it in the water. The game warden says hey don't you know I'm a game warden. The old guy lights another half stick, hands it to the game warden and says you gonna talk or fish.

Citizens of I.F.I.,

Respectfully,  you are all incorrect.

The Honorable Idiot Savants, of SLAG industries have intensively examined the specimen and have determined that it is a gigantic meteorite.

Indeed, it is a meteorite, a stony-iron pallasite. That is a very rare find.

Remarkably, it does not have any orange green olivine crystal inclusions in its iron-nickel matrix.

Mr. Glen your hail damage theory was an excellent guess but did not hit the bullseye. The hit was situate a little left of center. 

Take a closer look and you will just make out some of the arrow's fletching, there.

The SLAG strongly suggests that this magnificent specimen be carefully shipped to the geology department at Marshall U,  or the Kalbfleish School of fine arts in Huntington W. Va. for further study.

Regards to all,

SLAG.

Mister Dragon please do not ship dynamite in the mail. There are city ordinances forbidding that.

Ordnance ordinances?

Not to mention the cow the USPS would have over it.

3 hours ago, SLAG said:

There are city ordinances forbidding that.

 

Mr. Dragon,

Agreed.

SLAG.

Ordinary Ordnance Ordinances to be sure.  Cities are fussy like that!

It looks to me like the postal service got a hold of it. Looks like some packages I get in the mail.

We have some officers in our department that could do that much damage in a sand box with a rubber mallet.

Or this one. 

"Condition: Good" $200. 

 

 

Looks like an old ranch anvil---lot's of life left in it!