OK, so maybe I didn't get in on the early part of this conversation and if
I'm duplicating what someone else said, please accept my apologies...  But
my main method of identifying Millers Falls planes when produced for the
mass marketers is two distinct characteristics of MF.  The raised portion
around the knob and the half turnover on the lateral.  I may be wrong, but I
feel this identifies the better made planes and if they made planes with any
other features, they just aren't the same quality.

Is it possible that Stanley or Sargent made the planes that have the double
folded lateral and the flat toe?  This has been my belief, but maybe I'm
wrong?  I know it is hard bor me to accept that possibility, but, well,
SWMBO says it does happen from time-to-time.

Bruce Z.
Kearney, MO

> On Friday, August 27, 2004, at 03:57  PM, Michele Minch wrote:
> > T&J Holloway wrote:
> >
> >>  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.