Help identify wooden hand plane.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just purchased my first two wooden hand planes. Each plane has a name
> on their end grain.
>
> Can someone please help me identify these planes.
>
> The first on has J. Scovill stamped on the end.
>
> The second has 5/16, 100 and it looks like A Monty. Below the name is
> three stars and below the three stars is Boston something. Too faint to
> read.
>
> If there are any web sites which help dating I'd appreciate those as
> well.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Post a link to the pictures you'll be taking...

R

Hi,

found out who made the plane. It was not Boston that I was reading but
Ruxton.

A Monty, Roxton Pond, PQ Canada.

Made areound 1880.

Alex

On 20 May 2006 19:38:21 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just purchased my first two wooden hand planes. Each plane has a name
>on their end grain.
>
>Can someone please help me identify these planes.
>
>The first on has J. Scovill stamped on the end.
>
>The second has 5/16, 100 and it looks like A Monty. Below the name is
>three stars and below the three stars is Boston something. Too faint to
>read.
>
>If there are any web sites which help dating I'd appreciate those as
>well.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Alex

Those might be company names but also could be an owner who stamped
their name on the tools. I have some old chisels that I bought at a
flea market. They had a name stamped on them....just like yours
first initial/last name. I searched all over trying to get info about
the company. In the end a collector told me they were Buck Bros and
the *H. Clark" was an ancient owner.