Anvils cannot be used to name items. Unsure if it applies to every item but I have tried a few.
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violine1101
MC-173743
Anvil Naming Problems
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Thank you for your report!
We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-173725, so I resolved and linked this ticket as a duplicate.
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