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Martin
the Hill Late Howel never had medallions on there saws, the other one might be a Robt Sorby post the photos over on backsaw.net and one of the collectors on that site might be able to help.
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Martin

With the Hill Late Howel you can’t get an exact date on them, they made exactly the same saw between 1834 and 1909.

Peter

Ian

I have another very nice early smoother and when I got it the rivets for the iron block were just as visible but once I flatten the sole they just disappeared.

Peter
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Rob
I would not of said anything until I’d paid for it, it was $200 or best offer it wasn’t going to last long so I didn’t haggle.

Peter

Guy

Sometimes good deals do show up. I was up early this morning and found this Spiers just listed on eBay and they didn’t know what they had. I asked for a photo of the bottom and when I saw the...

Mark

Sometimes you can find these at the right price, I bought this 13 1/2” Spiers on eBay in January and I was the only bidder and it cost less cash than yours. I still haven’t finished it but...

Derek
Yes I agree the Mathieson and Spiers planes are similar but the Mathieson sell for more. In the early days the view is the Mathieson infills were made by Spiers.

My reference is Has...

Colin
The early Mathieson infill planes seemed to of been made by Spiers and are very rare. But yours is not one of those, they used that stamp on the lever cap from 1890 to 1930’s the shape on the...

Hi Mark
I picked up a 16” Spiers early this year and have spent a bit of time tuning into a good user and it does take a bit of work.

With your plane it looks like it dates from around 1920-30 ...

Tommy
Tool Bazaar also sells new replacement parallel irons £60 so it would be great place to take your plane and try a few irons and just see what thickness yours needs. With the chip breaker...

Ian
The early tapered irons are not as thick as the later parallel irons so you need to open the mouth to fit a parallel iron. Back in the 1800’s infill planes had the mouth filled to suit the iron...

Tommy

For some reason you photo won’t open for me, all the others did.

First question would be, do you want to use it or look at it?

If you want to get it back working again take a photo of...

I know a little about these, I have a working set of I Hill late Howel saws from 9” to 16” made in the 1836-1855 range.

Back in the 1800’s “I” was the same as “J” and the stamp on yours is an I,...