This is about the Stanley No. 1 I bought at auction last week and listed in the discussion section. As you know from reading that post I paid $12.50 for a box lot of three items, a tool box, and two milk crates. The plane was in the bottom of the tool box which is in itself interesting, as it appears to be the type found on the running boards of early cars. I was going to restore the plane, but decided instead to just clean it as it will never be more than just a good user. Pictures attached. After I bought the plane I wanted to find out more history, but ran into a dead end. It was an estate sale, the owner passed, and there were no children. As you know, finding a No. 1 in the wild is not something that occurs everyday. When I arrived at the auction I went first to the garage area where there was a long table of tools. Almost all of it was very early Taiwan and China of very low quality. I thought at first another wasted trip, but when I walked behind the house there was on older shop with rows of rusty tools on tables and on the ground. The tool box and milk crates were on the ground as was a very old large master carpenter wood toolbox. It was mostly rotten and not repairable and contained only worthless tools. Back to the plane, it appears to be a type 7 from 1893-1899 with "S" foundry casting marks.
