Old wood sole plane

Hard to tell from that pic but it looks like a Sargent transitional

Looks like a #23 transitional, but I'd need a better look at the lever cap. Is there a stamping on the toe?

I'm not sure if absolute ID is needed to answer the question. The tansitional planes were made with a wooden sole, but their adjusting hardware was much alike the standard Stanley bench planes with a frog, and adjuster, an iron and a chipper. So no, adjustment and use was pretty straight forward.

Patrick makes fun of them, until he has one to sell, then he'll tell you what I just did.

He calls them the firewood planes.

The one I have works just like an iron one.

Some people actually like them better than he all metal planes. They say the beech wood slides along the material being worked more easily…...