Thoughts on this Anvil

[ctuai]

It's from hobbyist's estate sale. Jewelry, lampworking, copper etching, paper press. Pulled 80 lbs of copper plate and 7 oz of sterling silver from this lot.

I can't quite figure out what you would do with such a horn. I think it's reversible, which gives all these acute angles. Probably, for shaping copper forms, but like what. A can, a bracelet, a box?​

 

[Shiftless]

Very interesting!
80 pounds of copper is a lot. Do you plan to scrap it or ???

Silver is high right now. Scrapping that might make sense.

 

[neophyte]

The horn may be for ring sizing.
Basically, you put the ring on the slight taper, and hit it with a rawhide mallet down the taper to stretch the ring larger.

 

[Nick Rivers]

Below is a photo of something called a blowhorn stake from another GJ member. The narrower horn pointing up in the pic is used for ring and tight curve shapes. The larger horn is for cylindrical forming.