but------they're still out there........local on line auction has the odd ball item every once in awhile----132 lb--$ 41  tax title back of the truck......

That's a nice haul!  I have a smaller version of this.  It has "Acciaio" stamped on the side. It means "steel" in all the romance languages, including Romanian. This piece of trivia is brought to you by fresh roasted black coffee. 

Wait a sec ... why does a chinese cast anvil say "Acciaco" which means steel in Italian ?

Because when the Chinese started making these cast steel anvils a few years ago, they started by copying Italian anvils cast steel anvils that had "Acciaio" on the side. You can see pictures of these Italian anvils in Antonello Rizzo's Secrets of the Forge and The Blacksmith's Project Book.

2 hours ago, MeltedSocks said:

It means "steel" in all the romance languages, including Romanian.

Italian, yes. The other Romance languages, not so much:

• French: "acier"
• Spanish: "acero"
• Portuguese: "aço"
• Romanian: "oţel"
• Romansh: "stal" 
• Catalan: "acer"

 

38 minutes ago, JHCC said:

Because when the Chinese started making these cast steel anvils a few years ago, they started by copying Italian anvils cast steel anvils that had "Acciaio" on the side. You can see pictures of these Italian anvils in Antonello Rizzo's Secrets of the Forge and The Blacksmith's Project Book.

Italian, yes. The other Romance languages, not so much:

• French: "acier"
• Spanish: "acero"
• Portuguese: "aço"
• Romanian: "oţel"
• Romansh: "stal" 
• Catalan: "acer"

 

LOL.  Okay. I stand corrected.  This is what you call Google Translate user error.   I'm not at my sharpest until after my third mug.  

Me neither, I pretty much live on coffee. 

So when these chinese guys looked for a anvil pattern to copy; this one is the best they could find? I mean ... if you are going to copy an anvil pattern, take a london pattern or a north german double horn pattern for crying out loud, and put the holes in a location that is usefull ... 

appears this is one of the lines chinazon handles-----has a nice ring and about 80% rebound !!---(not a bad $ 41 buy !)---this one hasnt been used, not sure where it will end up.....this auction site is a hit or miss gold mine, have bought half a dozen sets of brand new auto springs for $1 / $2  a pop...........will add....(fwiw)........for this auction, you bid and pay on-line, pick up for me is about 15 min away-----a mammoth warehouse.....these guys sell everything under the sun, alot of amazon/walmart/lowes/target returns and overstock.......you walk through the warehouse to retrieve your items.....aisle after aisle ----HUNDREDS of pallets....THOUSANDS of cardboard cases/boxes/cartons-------------------90% ----------CHINA--------some Vietnam.....some xyz...........almost zero  ...USA.....