Title

Cooper's Howell

DateCirca 1830

Mediumwood, iron, steel

Dimensions8 × 8 1/2 × 17 3/4 in. (20.3 × 21.6 × 45.1 cm)

Object number00.175.22

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionA plane with a beech fence with four iron wear strips mortised . The plane body has a reworked sole. The James Cam (Sheffield) blade is not skewed but is missing the wedge. The plane body is attached to the fence with wood rods mortised through fence and wedge locked.

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