Ken Schaudt asked
:
>Just picked up a wooden coffin smoothing plane and am curious about
>an approximate age
>
>Body is stamped
>
>D. GALLOWAY & CO,
>EDINBURCH
>
>above a two headed winged beast behind a shield above
>D. MALLOCH&SON,
>PERTH
>
>Capiron is also stamped D. MALLOCH&SON.
>
>Blade is marked THOs IBBOTSON&Co.
>
>Also, what is a good reference for looking up this sort of information?
The plane was made by the planemaking firm of David MALLOCH & SON for sale by
Ironmongers D. GALLOWAY & Co.
W.L. Goodman's _British Planemakers from 1700_, Third Edition, c. 1993,
Astragal Press, lists the working dates for both firms:
MALLOCH, David & Son PERTH
50 South St. (The Perth Plane Works) 1878-1913
11 East Campbell St., Glasgow 1914-1932>
(Subsidiary of Alex. Mathieson, Glasgow)
GALLOWAY, D. & Co EDINBURGH
122 & 124 Fountainbridge 1878-1895
(21 &) 23 Dalry Rd. 1886-1905
318 Morningside Rd. <1905>
445 Homestead & 12 Dundee Rd. 1929-1939
Ironmongers.
As you'll note, the Glasgow firm of Alex. MATHIESON bought out D. MALLOCH
& SON in 1913, and closed down the works in Perth. They maintained a
separate directory listing for D. MALLOCH & SON, at the listed Glasgow
address, until 1932. They *may* have continued using "PERTH" as part of
the stamp on planes made during this period, but I think this unlikely. If
so, your plane most likely would have been made sometime during the 1878 to
1913 period.
I'm not familiar enough with D. MALLOCH & SON planes to know how their
irons were stamped, but I'm guessing that the THOs IBBOTSON & Co. iron is
a replacement.
Don McConnell
Knox County, Ohio
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