plough plane
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1796
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- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number 988.77.180
- Place of Origin Continent - Europe
- Place of Use Continent - Europe (tbv)
- Category Tools and equipment for materials
- Sub-category Woodworking tools and equipment
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1796/01/01
- Latest 1796/12/31
- Materials Ash, Metal
- Measurements Height 11.4 cm, Length 19.1 cm, Width 13.3 cm
- Related activity Carpentry
- Caption Plough Plane
- Additional Information This plane is inscribed with the date "1796" and the initials "IR", which probably refers to those of the toolmaker and/or owner. Excerpt from exhibition text: On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools, December 1991 to October 2005.
- Caption Planes
- Additional Information The plane, which is used principally for shaping (or sizing), fitting and finishing, consists of a chisel-like cutting iron fixed into a wooden stock or iron sole. Its invention is said to have been the most important advance in woodworking tools of the last two thousand years. The plane's earliest known use was by Roman joiners at the beginning of the Christian Era. Excerpt from exhibition text: On the Cutting Edge: The Arthur Pascal Collection of Woodworking Hand Tools, December 1991 to October 2005.