Frank - great story and reminded me of another. In an old carpenter’s basement
I found a rare Stanley spokeshave - #57 cooper’s shave - that had a modern cap
on it. On another bench was a modern Stanley 151 spokeshave with a funny cap,
older, but with a screw that looked like a hardware store ring eye instead of a
normal screw. Bought them both, looked in the book, and it turns out that the
ring eyed screw was there on the early production (the tool was made from
1870-1923). So I now have a really cool spokeshave that is 18” wide with a 2”
blade, with an 1872-1885 logo that they are calling a Type 1.
Ed Minch
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