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"RichardS" writes:

Patrick Leach's "blood and gore" webpages are a fairly good intro to Stanley
Bailey planes - history and model numbers.
http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0a.html

Interesting. Mine (my father's really, and might have been his
father's) is the Stanley #4, apparently manufactured from 1869-1984.

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Andrew Gabriel