I bought the little anvil, no hardy available but I have wanted an honest-to-god-anvil for about 30 years.

Thanks for all your replies & opinions, folks. They also made an Plowmaker's Anvil, a double Horn Anvil, a Hornless Anvil, a Sawmaker's Anvil, and Cooper's Steel faced Beck Irons. Hay-Budden manufactured a number of different pattern anvils, making the farrier's anvil with and without the clip horn. and the blacksmith who wants a strictly first-class anvil can make no mistake in purchasing a Hay-Budden.' we have produced a steel for the faces of our anvils which will take a harder temper and be less liable to chip than any on the market. The steel faces to these anvils are all put on in one solid piece: not two or more pieces, as is customary with most anvils. Top and bottom are each one solid piece and welded at the waist. Every genuine Hay-Budden Anvil is made by the latest improved methods. Hay-Budden advertising says: `Every Hay-Budden Anvil is made of the best American Wrought iron and faced with the best Crucible Cast Steel. In 1905, Hay-Budden claimed that there were over 100,000 of their anvils in use. They supposedly began operation in 1890 and went out of business in the era of 1920 to 1925. Fisher and Norris is also credited with building the largest anvil in the world (it weighed 1600 pounds) for the Centennial Exposition of 1876.ДЄ second United States manufacturer of anvils was Hay-Budden Manufacturing Co. All Fisher and Norris anvils used the Eagle Trademark. Fisher's first anvil was a cast iron body with a cast steel face. Backed by Norris he formed Fisher & Norris in Trenton, New Jersey, which operated from 1847 until 1961. Mark Fisher is credited with making the first anvil in the United States. Source: Blacksmith's and Farriers' Tools at Shelburne Museum, by H. Teaser at the beginning that I certainly didn't know. Here is the reference I am going by & the link is below, along with a little It definitely has the 2 d's as in 'Budden', not 'Burton'. So I got his cell phone number, did my best to read the markings on the side which looked kinda like ' aY Buddey' to me but when I googled it just now, google came back with 'did you mean Hay Budden?' so I 'spose that's what I meant. I asked the man if he thought it was a 100 pounder, he said he thought probably 85lbs so it's not monster but still, that's probably good enough for me. It is in pretty good shape I did notice one small maybe 1/2 inch long chip off the side of the face & a few dings but it certainly wasn't beat to death like so many I have seen. He said, 'Yeah, but here's a good'un' & pointed to a different one a little closer to the door and proceeded to tell me that this 'good'un' came out of a farm workshop where it had been for over 75 years, through 3 generations of the same family. So I stopped at this place that has become one of my favorites & talked to the proprietor he's an old auctioneer who understands junk, farm implements & the like and I discovered a Mexican anvil up on the porch. (pausing here until the giggles subside) That's right - Idalou. I found a little anvil today on my way back into town from the city of Idalou.

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