Jim

This looks almost exactly like a Hammacher Schlemmer & Co Molding
Spokeshave as shown on page 313, plate 13/10 of The Spokeshave Book.

Rumored to be about 1930s vintage, based on units manufactured by Geral,
but don't look the same.  The Gerals did not show the center "shoe" that
yours has (at least not in the examples pictured). Geral is listed as
carriage makers tools, and their "molding shaves" have the same cutter set
up, but without the center "shoe"  p313 plate 13/4.

I cant get the HS& Co catalogs to download (1170 pgs) right now from
Archive.org, but may only be a 1914 version.

Kirk in HMB, taking a day off in the rain.  My dogs love me for this.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Kirk Eppler  wrote:

> Looks like it would cut rabbets on a curved surface/
>
> Was going to guess leather working, since I could not see it well
> originally.
>
> The steel is Jessop, so no real leads there.
>
> And you said bronze, so could be user copied.
>
> Will check the spokeshave book when I get home.
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 4:42 PM, JAMES THOMPSON  wrote:
>
>> OK that was the wrong url. Try this:
>>
>>
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/102358420595488787966/October30201403?a
uthuser=0&feat=directlink">https://picasaweb.google.com/102358420595488787966/Oc
tober30201403?authuser=0&feat=directlink
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:40 PM, JAMES THOMPSON  wrote:
>>
>> > Here are pictures of one of the tools I recently was given. I have no
>> idea what it is for. Looks like a shave for trimming a sliding dovetail,
>> but that’s a WAG on my part. But the porch has never failed me yet.
>> >
>> >
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/102358420595488787966/NewFinds?authuser
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