Anyone know any information on this little anvil? The only marking I can see on it I the letter A. First time I've ever dug an anvil, little fella, maybe a jewelers tool?

I don't know anything about it other then that's a cool find!

That’s really cool! Maybe, a anvil salesmen, uses those as businesses cards, back in the day.

Nice find.

Shhhh that’s a leprechaun anvil they used them to hammer their gold coins for sure an dontcha know.
Very cool find.

Looks more like an H to me

Maybe one of those toys given out to farmers like when dad bought a new tractor junior got a toy one

Salesman sample

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That’s a cool find!!!

Lots of different companies gave them out as promotional items my cousin has about 30 or so

Get a picture of them sometime if you can Please

neat find,i often go back and look again in places i was concentrating on coins to now find bigger stuff.dug about everything i thought but aint ever found one of them.

Its a promotional paper weight..

Great find

That is really cool find.. Love stuff like that..
I definitely got to start going more than places to detect than in water.

Mac

The city took down an old abandoned house and I was in the right place at the right time. Old matchbox cars, pewter soldier, the anvil and a lot of other neat stuff. I used to be a coinshooter looking for that deep silver but that's getting scarce.

Saweet find! I have a tiny anvil that is used for what I think is called repousse work. I got it when I was doing custom auto sheet metal. It worked great for trim restoration.

Really cool find.My first thought was a small jewelers anvil,but probably wrong.Neat find.

Gwc I’d say you’re probably correct. I know some jewelry makers use them for relief/embossing like repousse which is a technic more prevalent in silver work like bowls or plates that have been embossed.

Don’t have a full photo of all together as they are scattered all over his house but here are a few

Notice the date so these are still being used as promotional items



And a few more

He is always checking out eBay and other sites for new ones most are 20 to 40 dollars but he admits that he has paid as much as 500 for a real rare one

Thats Awesome!