> Mick found a nice plane:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/110606900822928930073/CircularRebatePlane-
> AndSparPlane#

Mick,

there is a very interesting entry with lots of pictures and information
in a French forum about carriagemaker's grooving planes:

http://outils-anciens.xooit.fr/t33-Les-bouvets-de-carrossier.htm

You will find a plane just like yours on page 3 (the one that sold for
1600 $). There were a lot of different types in Europe, and the one you
found was made in Germany and is known as "Schweriner Nuthobel"
(grooving plane "Schwerin" pattern). Unfortunately I do not know much
about these planes other than they were obviously made in the city of
Schwerin (Northern Germany) by one or a group of makers.

Planes like the smaller one were made by different companies and up to
more recent times. Here's a page from a 1940 catalog by Friedrich Ott,
maker of the famous Frankenplanes ("Frankenhobel") ;-)

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/kataloge/ott2_47.jpg

Wolfgang

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