Gary Roberts walking too slow...

> Subject: one step behind at Brimfield (note to Randy Roeder)
> That is all it took to miss out on a very nice clean Kennedy & White 
> plow plane for $35. Someone else was that one step ahead of me into 
> the booth. At least I scored a buncha ephemera from the same booth 
> while his back was turned.

I managed to do the same thing, twice.  The first time a guy had just
loaded ten good planes out of a box of woodies, for which the guy was
asking a total of $75.  The prospective buyer, who by then was holding
the planes in his hand offered $65, which the seller was not real 
happy about.  I was tempted to pipe up and tell the seller I'd be
happy to give him $75, but it just seemed too contentious, so I didn't.

About two booths later, I walked into a booth, just as Martin Donnelly 
walked out.  If you've read the stories about Martin leaving behind
nothing but dust, those stories are true.

I was beginning to fear that was going to be the story of the day, but
since I'd already plunked down my $4 for parking, and I need the exercise,
I figured I'd just keep walking, hopefully ahead of those two other guys!

I got all the way to the far western end of the road, and there, on a
table covered with rusty iron objects (none of which by the way, were
tools), I saw a long plane body with vertical corrugations on the sides,
and when I picked it up to look at the serpentine corrugations on the 
sole, I realized I was holding a Rodier's patent plane in my hand. 

Yep I now have one of these.  It came dirty, like it had been sitting
at the bottom of a coal bin for about 100 years.  The knob is missing
a couple of chunks, but is mostly intact.  The cutter is by Buck Bros,
and if PTAMPIA is a data point, is probably the original cutter, and it
appears to be virtually unused.  The tote is the only thing missing.

Could anyone tell me if the long extended "foot" at the back of the tote 
as pictured in PTAMPIA is correct for the 22" version of this plane.  
I'll even go one step further - does anyone actually *have* one of these, 
and would be willing to send me a tracing of the tote so I could try to
make a reproduction?  It's an interesting design in that the tote is
held to the body by a single screw at the forward portion of the tote
(the same place the second screw exists on a Stanley #5 or larger, there
is no bolt through the top of the tote into the body.)

Any help would be appreciated.

Jim Cook  (who finally got a real collectable in his ...uh... collection)