The anvil has a conical unfinshed horn with shift axis, as well as a relatively long and narrow face which transforms into the pyramid shape. This stake anvil, or bickern, is designed for lighter work requiring precision. "I seek not to imitate the masters rather, I seek what they sought.Stake Anvil - Bickern finished for use in blacksmithing and forging shops. I free hand hammered the horn into shape with several heats, bringing it up from the bottom and leveling the topline. While it was on the ground, I tipped it to sit on its heel and heated about 3" of the horn end with the rosebud. This anvil came to me with a droopy horn end and point. This big anvil has a proportionately thin base. It has no markings except a single number stamped in the waist just under the horn base. I recently acquired an HB that I haven't weighed, but I'm confident it weighs over 300 pounds. Another smith's pattern is 227 pounds and is sleeker looking than the one just mentioned. There is no number in the waist under the horn base. Some of the serial numbers are illegible. It is bulky built and I believe quite old. Presently, I have one quite old smith's pattern weighed on the coal yard scale 225 pounds. I don't think that any of the farriers' HB's had a cutting table. The other was similar to what Thomas described, a 211 pound farriers' anvil with the swelled horn, two pritchel holes, and narrow face. It lacked the swell, and had a single pritchel hole, rather than two. I had another farriers' HB that weighed 140 pounds. It weighed 158 pounds, and I carried it in my shoeing rig and hoisted it on my hip from tailgate to angle iron stand and back again for a few years. My first was a farriers' pattern, as in the early 1960's, I was learning farriery. I've had three in the past, and I currently have three other HB's.
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