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There wasn’t much barrier to entry for a carpenter
to get into manufacturing wooden planes. There
still isn’t. A handful of wood plane makers became
large going concerns. Mostly the smaller manufacturers
didn’t grow much. Even 19th century makers of
cast-iron machinery aren’t very well documented.
It was the industrial age and a lot of creative people
tried their hands.

I never heard of the maker, but that’s no surprise.
A lot of wood planes are stamped even more
obscurely. You can set up ebay to notify you if
a plane from the maker shows up.

That looks like a really nice shave.

Maybe someone with one of the plane maker reference books will see this and have a chance to look up that maker. I don’t know if they would be listed if they didn’t also make planes, but there’s a decent chance they did. If no one does see this, post in the Handplane of you dreams thread and more people will see it.

I’ve not heard of the maker. Nice little shave.

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