What happened to all the anvils from the olden times?

Question

Every town had a blacksmith, who had an anvil. Where are they all now?

Answer 1

short story-they get bought up, i had a 204 lb, that was the standard size for a big shop and it was three hundred years old and was hand laminated and forged together because the top has to be malable, this was in the fifties and there were allot of blacksmith shops in America but were in industrial areas and were scrapped out in the same way that old cars disappear they just get the evil eye of the public and there gone, most were auctioned off as the black smith shop were out dated and in house work, factories could do anything and were more Mobile in applications, most that survive were hidden from the uncle sam insistence that all steel was to be rounded up for war efforts

Answer 2

The Anvils

Answer 3

I read a good story about one that was dug up

probably ebay has em

ask a blacksmith maybe

in barns and basements mostly I think, probably could get a big one for $200, $1500 for shipping though, they are HEAVY

Answer 4

Virtually all of them would have been sold to scrap metal dealers and then resold to companies that needed iron to produce steel or other products. Some would have rusted away. Others are probably still sitting around in attics or abandoned factories or buried.

Answer 5

They were either:
1)Rusted away, until they were unrecognizable

2)Melted down to make coins, tools, pots and pans, etc.

3)Sold to collectors

4)Hidden in a barn somewhere, and forgotten about

5)Buried, in which case they will eventually be found and melted down or sold, or not found in which case they will rust away.

Answer 6

They melted them and made amunition during war time, now they are just pieces of shrapnel scattered around the earth.