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This rounder plane, also referred to as a pole shave, was used at R. Middleton & Sons’ wheelwrights shop at Eddington, Hungerford, for shaving the ends of ladder rungs and poles. It consists of a rounded piece of wood, with a pair of handles and a blade set in the tapering round groove into which the pole was put. The blade was made by Rearly and Wood, Sheffield.

1 pole shave: wood; steel blade

Sheffield

1825-01-01 - 1874-12-31

Mid-nineteenth century

Plane, rounder, Shave, pole