Does the second day of battle of Gettysburg in the US civil war count as a hammer-and-anvil battle? Usual amateurish bumbling from our American cousins of course but there was something like a pinning attack, and something like an outflank attempt from the rebs, succesfully resisted by the legitimate govt forces.

IIRC Blucher attempted to hammer and anvil Davout in Paris after Waterloo, and had his cav savagely ripped up by a prompt countermove. One might view Austerlitz as the hammer and anvil writ large, but the russian hammer was forstalled by Davouts timely arrival and the anvil of the Pratzen heights proved brittle to Soults adamant advance.

I think there would be many examples (with both both inept and capable forces) of "hammer and anvil" attacks being thwarted and defeated.