Thread: Can any kind soul appraise this lot of planes?

Hope I'm not breaking any rules by asking this. Can include more pics if necessary.

None of them have names except for Pexto and Stanley on the blades themselves
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It's really hard to say without getting an up close look. Cracks, rust pitting, and missing parts are the death of old planes. A run of the mill bench plane in usable condition runs ~$20-40 in thrift stores, block planes $5-10. Lower if they are miscellaneous cheapies, India, or China made. Even lower if missing pieces or damaged. Prices can go up if it is a specific collectible plane or if they are in excellent condition. There are collector websites out there that can help identify Stanley plane era/variations. Other makers can be harder to pin down.

Hi stanley51, most readers of this forum don't live in in the USA so we would be pretty useless as a guide to prices there. Just eyeballing the pics, as Truckjohn indicated, you probably haven't got a retirement nest-egg there. The 'transitional' (wooden-stock) plane on the left is very much an acquired taste, & Patrick Leach's somewhat undeserved damming of them ensures they are not popular with modern users. The the non-Stanley Bailey type 5 or 5 1/2 or whatever it is, is marked with a low price I'd hesitate to pay - that flimsy-looking adjuster knob and crude tote are rather off-putting.

But there could be a gem or two amongst the batch - as TJ says, you need to get up close & personal with old planes to make a sensible appraisal....

Cheers,