[TheForge] Anvil question.

Gabriel Cain [email protected]
Sun Feb 24 23:27:01 2002


Hello all.

Yesterday was a very good day:  I got my first real anvil.  Picked it up from 
Bill Apple, at a Blacksmith swap meet in Seattle.  I like it very much.  Very 
superior to the "anvil" I was using previously.  My previous "anvil" was a 40ish 
pound piece of train rail.  Bleh.   I like real anvils. ;-)

My question to the list:

What kind do I have?  It is about two feet long, about 12 inches high, and about 
3 1/2 to 4 inches wide (no ruler handy).  The horn is about 10 inches long.  It 
has  markings on the side like so: (forgive the ascii art. :))

	American
     (horse shoe shape w/ (I think) "trade mark" stamped, one word above the other)
	Wrought

Does anybody know what kind of anvil this is?  (I have been looking online, but 
that has not been going as well as it could. :))

Thanks very much,
Gabriel.