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An anvil with a hammer, marking a smith.
Also known as: Blacksmith's tools, Smith's anvil, Anvil on a grave
An anvil, usually with a hammer and often with pincers. Among the most reliably occupational motifs, because the objects are specific to one trade and were not adopted as a general emblem the way the anchor and the square were.
An anvil, generally accompanied by a hammer and sometimes by pincers or a horseshoe, carved on a monument to mark a blacksmith or farrier.
Contexts: History
More reliably occupational than most motifs in this vocabulary: an anvil is specific to one trade and was not adopted as a general emblem, unlike the anchor or the square and compasses.
The smith held an unusual social position in many communities as the figure with power over iron and fire, and that standing appears in the folklore record independently of gravestones.
A heavy anvil with a flat top, a pointed horn at one end and a square base, with a hammer lying across or beside it.
Both are trade motifs following the same conventions of occupational carving.