Plane, Molding

Object Name:

Plane, Molding

Object ID:

1979.070.050

Creator:

Tileston, ThomasToolmaker

Place of Origin:

Boston, MA

Description:

Plane, molding."T TILESTON", "BOSTON". Medium-brown, fine-grained hardwood with some wide annular rings on sides. Additional piece screwed on to side of extension with three slotted steel flat-head wood screws. Chamfering starts with groove on front, midway up, goes to top front square corner, goes across top and then extends to rounded back corner where it stops. Old missing pieces across back corner at left side. On other side, chamfering starts at groove at top of extension, ends up the front to square front corner, across top to rounded rear corner, down side where it stops in groove at top of extension. Concave groove top of extension. On right side below top of extension is a curved surface which flares outward to bottom of extension piece. The extension addition extends beyond front and back edges of plane's body. On left side is a wide chamfer from front to back that is not evenly cut. It is 0.6" wide at front and 0.9" wide at back. Tool marks in chamfer's plane. Cutting pattern is slight concave groove 1.1" wide. At right edge surface then extends upward and to right about 0.4" before it stops. It stops at edge of extension addition which acts as fence at right side. Slot in extension additional piece that extends mouth and throat area of main body of plane. Numerous old hammer marks on heel, some of which caused chipping of left edge of heel. Stamped on front. Three vertically-oriented stamps. Top block stamp has serrated edges. "T. TILESTON". Below that bottom plain-edged stamp, and another stamp below it and there may be one larger stamp. "BOSTON" with serrated bottom edge. Right and left edges have simple geometric designs, one side mirrors other side. Below that is boxed stamp serrated edges, "Ha.....son Avenue". Irons have tang on left side. Backing iron tang is turned over at end. Stamp on top of tang: "W. B[U]B[...]N[..]". On cutting iron stamped: "W...SUT[O]{...}".

Material:

Wood
Metal

Dimensions:

H-5.9 W-2.5 L-9.7 D-1.8 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of George F. Sawyer