Rabbet Plane (NC-891)
Dateca. 1720-1753
Maker
Francis Nicholson
MediumWood, iron, and steel
DimensionsLength: 9 7/8" Height: 3 1/8" Thickness: 15/16"
Credit LineBequest of David V. Englund
Object number2016-341
DescriptionA plane of standard rectangular shape with a through snail shell shaped throat that discharges to the left. Working life iron nickers are dovetailed into the sides of the fore stock. The top and front edges have narrow flat chamfers that terminate with lambs' tongue cuts. Fitted with skewed sharpened iron and skewed wedge with a moderately relieved elliptical finial and simple single curve notch.MarkingsF*NICHOLSON / LIVING IN / WRENTHAM
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1720-1753
ca. 1739-1763
ca. 1753-1784
ca. 1739-1763