WOODEN PLANE
1890 - 1930Long rectangular wood block body. Approximately a quarter of the way from one end is a hole that has a wide rectangular opening on the top of the plane body and slants inwards to a thin rectangle slot on the opposite side. At the opposite end a wood curved (looks like the lower part of a leg and the foot, with the toes facing away from the hole) handle has been inserted into place.
Tool used by Henry Buckingham in the late 1890s and early 1900s. A draw knife is a woodworking tool used to shape wood. His father Thomas Buckingham Junior was known to have made furniture for a living in the 1860s. Henry pursued a career as a carpenter, wagon builder and wheelwright in the Kelmscott. In c1897 he purchased part of his fathers Roleystone property and established the orchard Bangup. In 1905 he married Lucy J Fancote and had a daughter Sybil (Mrs Sybil Gwynne). In a copy of his diary he records on the 1st of March 1898 'Mending traps, making wagons and carts, mending Bob Marsh's carriage, etc.'. This tool may have also been used in 1905 when he built a house up on the orchard.
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