old plane

Have old block plane. It is stamped "w.thackeray planemaker ", remainder of stamp cannot be read.

Mahogany body, brass cheeks with steel sole plate

Any ideas please

NormanE

I have an idea.

Sharpen it, use it, love it, clean it.

That's four ideas. any one will do.

But what sort of idea were you after?

Tim W

googling reveals

W THACKERAY

"Ken Robert's in his English Woodworking Tools book has a single line indicating that this company got in the metal plane business after 1860.

Goodman (British Planemakers) has the following:

Thackeray, John William LEEDS Wesley Rd, Armley

67 Old Row Armley 1907 - 1912 Ivy Works, 51 Old Row, Armley

Norman,

like always, Google knows the answer:

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