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I am now starting to dabble a little with some blacksmith type work, so I finally picked up a nice Buffalo Forge coal forge with a hand crank blower and a pretty old Hay Budden Anvil on a stump. My questions are; is there a good way to clean the anvil? I do not want to use any wire wheel or power tools on it. I used a wire brush and found a serial number, looks like 65530 (Is there a way to determine the age by this serial number?) it also has a number 8 stamped under the horn. Under the Hay Budden logo there are the weight markings 1.7.0, which according to my research would mean that this was supposed to weigh 112 + (28*7) + 0 or 308 pounds, and that is not close. So do these numbers mean something else? I would guess its weight at about 180 pounds.

And my last question is, should I put some thin fire brick or something in my forge around the area where the fire is, or leave it? I'll snap some pics later and try to post them up. Maybe I should not have started expanding the metal working hobby yet, but I can't help it. Thanks in advance. I have a 275lbs buddin that was made in 1904 I used a wire wheel on it to get the rust off of it then I used a flap sanding wheel on the top and the horn to get them all shined up. I then waxed the whole anvil and put it in my living room on a beautiful cast iron stand.

Nvidia 3dtv Play Activation Utility. This thing is mint I am not worthy of striking such a fine anvil, I have used it a couple of times I could not resist, I had no idea it was that perfect when I bought it since it was real dirty I dont think it was used much since there are no hammer marks in it. You wont hurt it with a wire wheel just dont sandblast them they look terrible when people do that.