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Today, while at an estate sale, I happened on to several smaller planes. A #3 Bailey, and #220 Stanley, a couple of unknowns, PLUS an 'Atkins'. After cleaning layers of dirt, I found a brass knob that said 'E.O. Atkins & Co. Indianoplis' and 'Pat'd Dec 27, 1897'.

After a bit of cleaning and rust removal, all elements now move. And without any work, I was able to make a curl from a pine board.

All of this, and only $20 for all 6 planes!

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Great find Ira. Is the blade marked at all?
 

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It is hard to be some of those old planes. You will have some nice tools there. I have a Bailey #3 that is one of my favorites.
 

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What a great find!!!! I would like to run into the same deal, good clean-up to. Enjoy.
 

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i have one like the one furthest on the left what one is tht?
 

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The one on the left is a Stanley #3, Type 13 I believe….. It has the 3 patent dates behind the frog…
 

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Great find

Thanks for sharing
 

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Wonderful find at an excellent price!

Can't say definitively w/o research, but I don't believe Atkins ever made a plane. Is the blade marked? If so, I would say the maker of the plane is what's marked on the blade. Then, I would speculate that a previous owner used the medalion screw from an Atkins saw handle to replace the front knob/adjustment screw for the plane's adjustable mouth.
 

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Lucky find, Lucky I wasn't there!!!!
 

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Wayne and Paul and others,

I am, too, beginning to think something is fishy with this Atkins Plane. First, I does have a Stanley Rule & Level Co cutter [iron]. Second, it shows patent mark cast into the sole of 6-97 [July 1897 I assume].

Third, in my research on the web, I find volumnes about Atkins, but nowhere is there any mention of manufacturing or marketing any wood plane. Saws, yes, just nothing about planes.

Finally, the real tip off come when i carefully examined the knob. It has four flat sides under the knob. This is just how a 'carriage' bolt is made. And this would be logical for a 'Sex Bolt' to be used in a saw handle.

So now, I am going to retract my earlier statement about having found an 'Atkins Plane'. This is a Stanley block plane with a replacement knob. From an Atkins saw.

Some creatative woodworker managed to keep his plane working after having lost the Stanley knob.
 

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Excellent find, I love those old planes.
 

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Some great looking planes.

Nice restoration.
 

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one of the other unknowns is a bullnose rabbet looks like either a millers falls or stanley
 

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lucky dog!
 
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