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69/130
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[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
A router plane with a wooden stock and steel blade, used to clean the bottom of wide grooves. The blade is marked with the name of the manufacturer, 'Spear & Jackson', and the stock is marked 'W. Newton' in six places. The plane is part of a set of cabinet maker's tools, many of which are marked 'W. Newton', suggesting this may have been the name of the cabinet maker from whom the donor acquired the set.
[nb-NO]Physical description[nb-NO]
1 router plane; wood and metal [steel]; good condition: chip on bottom
[nb-NO]Archival history[nb-NO]
MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – ‘PLANE (Router) // 69/130 // CRAFTS Wood // ... // Wood // Steel // [pencil drawing] // Blade marked: SPEAR & JACKSON // Marked: W. NEWTON (6) // Twice superimposed on unreadable name'
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_9685.tif - High resolution image
