On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 05:17  PM, Ed Minch wrote:
> I have a Fulton (#5 jack) in my basement and it is a dead ringer for 
> an M-F.  Has rosewood where rosewood ought to be,and the tote even 
> looks and feels more  like a Stanley than those relatively straight 
> M-F totes. The blade is even shaped like an M-F.  Doesn't appear to be 
> any different anywhere.  The only ID on the whole plane is the Fulton 
> on the blade.

	I have a Craftsman brand (i.e., the name Sears still uses for its 
tools) plane, from the era with the name in blocky letters in a 
blue-background oval on the lever cap.  Except for the lever cap being 
"waisted" like the Stanley design rather than straight-sided like most 
Millers Falls lever caps, the plane has the look of MF, down to the 
red-painted frog.  Tom Price, aka Dr. D-8, he of the shelf-o-planes, 
was visiting after an upstate New York Galoot Gathering at my place, 
back in the summer of '99 I b'lieve it was, and I showed him this 
plane.  He passed on a tidbit for identifying planes with other brand 
names but made by Millers Falls.  The givaway is a lozenge-shaped 
depression, maybe 3/8" long, cast into the underside of the frog, on 
each side, close to the top.  If your Fulton, Craftsman, or other 
brandname plane has those dimples in the casting, the word it that it 
was made my Millers Falls.
	HTH,
		Tom Holloway,
glad the baseboard is installed, and the furniture can be put back in 
its place.