General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

6

Total Parts

7

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

metal

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

1.7 cm

Width

N/A

Height

21.3 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Industrial Technology

Category

Tools-Hand

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Butcher

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

City

Sheffield

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Presumably used c. 1910 until late 1940s; possibly also used later.

Canada

Part of a collection of hand tools belonging to James Anthony (1883-1966), an English born and trained carpenter who came to Canada c. 1910 and worked in and around Ottawa, ON. Following the 1916 fire which destroyed the Parliament buildings and damaged the Library, Mr. Anthony was hired as a foreman with the restoration crews. Until 1920, he was involved in the rebuilding of the Peace Tower and the installation of new windows at the Library of Parliament. He later worked with various builders in the Ottawa area, retiring in the late1940s. After his death in 1966 the tools were given to his son Jack, who in turn donated them to CSTMC. [Ref. 1]

Function

To shape wood by removing thin, shallow strips.

Technical

Irons for a plow plane are usually bedded at 50-degrees, and thickened back-to-front at the lower end where there is a V-groove on the underside to engage with a knife-edge on the sole-plate, keeping the iron rigid. They are made in sets of 8 different sizes from 1/8 to 9/16 inches wide, and are snecked at the top. (Ref. 4) This iron measures 5/16 in width, and has a rolled [not true snecked] top.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"W. BUTCHER/ SHEFFIELD", and symbols "5" within a circle, a right-facing arrow, and a cross stamped into iron, near top.

Missing

None.

Finish

Metal.

Decoration

N/A