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Bay state B10


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Welcome from the Ozark Mountains.

It looks like a pretty nice anvil and having the history on it is a plus as far as I'm concerned. I hope you have read about not doing any grinding, milling or welding on the hardened steel face, which will do more harm than good. Hammering hot steel on it will help to shine up the face and help with the roughness. Have you done a ring & rebound test to see if the face is still hard?

There is a trick to doing a good search on the forum, put in your search term and add site:iforgeiron.com to the end of the search string. Sadly the search feature on the forum leaves a lot to be desired.

I tried that and here is but one hit. https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/50283-bay-state-anvil/

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Looks like cast iron to me but malleable cast iron isn't the same as cheap Chinese ASO cast iron.

This is all I found regarding the manufacturer and it looks like there were financial issues over quite a bit of it's history.  http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=3485&tab=0

I didn't see anything about anvils or other blacksmithing tools or equipment but I'd say from your picture they made anvils at least. 

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