A beautiful little bullnose plane without a makers name but likely either Norris or Spiers, the body is brass or bronze with apparently a rosewood wedge, we should clean it up and see.
With no markings, it might be made from one of the catalog kits that were popular back in the day. You would get a roughish casting, a dull iron, and plans for the wooden wedge and you could make it as plain or as fancy as you wish. Infill planes made good kits because the casting is stable and they require no mechanism.
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Can anyone hazard an informed guess as to when this beauty may have been introduced? Elegant thing.
With no markings, it might be made from one of the catalog kits that were popular back in the day. You would get a roughish casting, a dull iron, and plans for the wooden wedge and you could make it as plain or as fancy as you wish. Infill planes made good kits because the casting is stable and they require no mechanism.
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