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19th Century Rebate or Rabbet Double-bladed Plane
Lot: 449Unsold19th Century Rebate or Rabbet Double-bladed Plane, possibly France, 36-in. double-handled body with chip-carved geometric decoration throughout, "IOS" carved and burned just above the blades, sole more ...
18th Century Compagnon-made Plane
Lot: 450Sold for: $3,321$2,70018th Century Compagnon-made Plane, Europe, 19 1/2-in. body decorated with a draped woman abed, pierced scrolled handle, deeply carved Greek key-decorated sides, the wedge marked and dated "1746." more ...
19th Century Marked and Dated Plane
Lot: 451Sold for: $185$15019th Century Marked and Dated Plane, France, 10-in. fruitwood body with carved scrolled tote, marked "PE" just above the escapement and "1823" on the side, with later metal sole. Provenance: The more ...
19th Century Dutch Plane
Lot: 452Sold for: $185$15019th Century Dutch Plane, 9 1/2-in. chip-carved body with simple tote, marked "1807" above the fluted and decorated escapement, and a carved six-petal flower-decorated wedge. Provenance: The more ...
18th Century Rebate or Rabbet Radius Plane
Lot: 453Sold for: $62$5018th Century Rebate or Rabbet Radius Plane, France, 8 1/2-in. boxwood body with small scrolled tote, tulip decoration above the wedge, both sides with shallow floral decoration and marked "CF" on more ...
19th Century Rebate or Rabbet Plane
Lot: 454Sold for: $62$5019th Century Rebate or Rabbet Plane, Europe, 40 1/2-in. sculpted beech plane with D-shaped handle, marked "CIE." Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
18th Century Austrian Compass Plane
Lot: 455Sold for: $677$55018th Century Austrian Compass Plane, c. 1726, 8 1/2-in. fully decorated birch body with three-lobe escapement, scrolled tote, carved tulip decoration on both sides, one side marked "ICM/1726," more ...
18th Century Marked Compass Plane
Lot: 456Sold for: $400$32518th Century Marked Compass Plane, c. 1786, 6-in. body with small scrolled tote, top and side marked "CFK," the other side with faint date inscribed "1786/HM," illegible iron maker's marks with an more ...
17th Century Smoothing Plane
Lot: 457Unsold17th Century Smoothing Plane, probably France, 10 1/2-in. fruitwood body, front tote delicately carved with a figure of a dragon or lion's head with a scrolling mane, dated "1688" above the more ...
19th Century Molding or Radius Plane
Lot: 458Sold for: $492$40019th Century Molding or Radius Plane, France, 11-in. body with a concave sole, sliding dovetailed carved scrolled handle, deeply carved heart-shape decorated escapement, and signed at rear of blade more ...
19th Century Molding Plane
Lot: 459Sold for: $49$4019th Century Molding Plane, France, 7 1/2-in. fruitwood body with chip-carved sides, five petal and cross-decorated top, simple shaped sliding dovetailed handle, with a stepped sole. Provenance: more ...
Ary Den Hengyst Chamfer Plane
Lot: 460Sold for: $369$300Ary Den Hengyst Chamfer Plane, Dutch, c. 1740, 7 3/4-in. body with twin volutes, and dated "1740," iron strike button, spiral-decorated wedge, and stamped on toe with Ary's markings three times, and more ...
Fruitwood Sun Plane
Lot: 461Sold for: $246$200Fruitwood Sun Plane, 18th century, 14-in. lg. extensively carved body signed "Fred Ka(u)ntz/1738." Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Two OWT or Router Planes
Lot: 462Sold for: $615$500Two OWT or Router Planes, 19th century, wooden bodies, wedges, and iron blades, example with turned concentric circles marked "W. Walker," other one marked "C. Emson." Provenance: The property of more ...
18th Century Marked Compass Plane
Lot: 463Sold for: $492$40018th Century Marked Compass Plane, probably Netherlands, c. 1793, 6 1/2-in. body with simple scrolled tote and wedge carved on both sides, one "1793," the other "DH," with period iron reinforcement more ...
Four 19th Century OWT Routers
Lot: 464Sold for: $246$200Four 19th Century OWT Routers, Europe, three with lock-down screws, and adjustable blade heights, one with D-shaped chip-carved handle, wd. 4 to 9 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Twelve 19th Century Molding Planes
Lot: 465Sold for: $246$200Twelve 19th Century Molding Planes, sold with an iron sleigh-form block plane. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
18th Century Fruitwood Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 466Sold for: $369$30018th Century Fruitwood Varloper or Long Plane, France, 31 1/2-in. fully decorated body with a carved fleur-de-lis at the toe, handle terminating in a delicately carved spiral, heart-shaped more ...
Fully Decorated and Dated Hand Plane
Lot: 467Sold for: $185$150Fully Decorated and Dated Hand Plane, c. 1824, carved heart above the throat with punched star decoration, one side carved with date, the other "ONMS," lg. 9 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of more ...
18th Century Long Plane
Lot: 468Sold for: $984$80018th Century Long Plane, Europe, 84-in. fruitwood plane carved with a six-petal leaf and scrollwork at the escapement, old butterfly repair joints, punch decoration with initials and date "1719." more ...
19th Century Marked Chamfer Plane
Lot: 469Sold for: $154$12519th Century Marked Chamfer Plane, 6-in. body stamped "S Hughes" on both ends, brass sole with adjustable fences, and delicately carved decorated wedge. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
18th Century German Smoothing Plane
Lot: 470Unsold18th Century German Smoothing Plane, c. 1725, 11-in. body with carved and scrolled front tote or handle, date "1725," and "IB," hollowed oval escapement, sides with simple incised decoration. more ...
18th Century Radius Plane
Lot: 471Sold for: $154$12518th Century Radius Plane, Netherlands, 9 1/2-in. body with simple carved scrolled tote, incised line-decorated sides, decorated escapement with "ND" in a heart with three-point mark below, iron more ...
19th Century Molding Plane
Lot: 472Sold for: $154$12519th Century Molding Plane, France, fully decorated 10-in. plane with deeply carved bookmatched foliate design on one side, chip-carved decoration on the reverse side and wedge. Provenance: The more ...
Japanese Hand Plane
Lot: 473Sold for: $369$300Japanese Hand Plane, boat-shaped rosewood body with 4 1/4-in. wide hand-forged iron blade and dual wedges, blade and body with touchmarks, lg. 12 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Two Japanese Hand Planes
Lot: 474Sold for: $277$225Two Japanese Hand Planes, a 5-in. compass plane, and a 10-in. smoothing plane, large iron staple on rear to hold together the split. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Signed and Dated Varloper or Try Plane
Lot: 475UnsoldSigned and Dated Varloper or Try Plane, France, c. 1797, boxwood body with two caved pigeons below the mouth, delicately shaped handle, signed on the side "Fait Par Moy Heny Comte en I'an 4," lg. 29 more ...
Frans Moret Dutch Blokschaaf Hand Plane
Lot: 476UnsoldFrans Moret Dutch Blokschaaf Hand Plane, Netherlands, 18th century, finely carved stock with volutes, scrolls, and dated "1745," with iron strike button, small spiral carved into the wedge, and more ...
Signed and Dated Rebate or Rabbet Plane
Lot: 477Sold for: $185$150Signed and Dated Rebate or Rabbet Plane, possibly France, c. 1806, 29-in. body with crudely carved scallop-edged tote and simple floral carving on escapement, branded "ICR," and carved "1806." more ...
17th Century Italian Long Plane
Lot: 478Sold for: $246$20017th Century Italian Long Plane, with shaped pierced handle, simple line-decorated escapement edge, and carved scroll and reeded tote, lg. 28 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
European Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 479Sold for: $185$150European Varloper or Long Plane, 19th century, 25-in. body with shaped and pierced handle, iron blade with an image of a parrot and marked in part "Mutzig-Framont/Garant." Provenance: The more ...
19th Century Molding Plane
Lot: 480Sold for: $123$10019th Century Molding Plane, probably France, 10-in. fruitwood body with a fully decorated side of chip-carving and twin five-petal flowers flanking an image of a cross and what appears to be more ...
18th Century Dutch Reisschaaf Plane
Lot: 481Sold for: $1,599$1,30018th Century Dutch Reisschaaf Plane, William Evertsen, c. 1785, 30 1/2-in. body with sculpted and carved handle, and tote, finely carved escapement with twin volutes, and dated "1785," stamped on more ...
18th Century Varloper or Try Plane
Lot: 482Sold for: $246$20018th Century Varloper or Try Plane, Europe, tapered body with key-shaped escapement, and boldly carved and pierced scroll-decorated handle, lg. 26 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
19th Century Italian Try Plane
Lot: 483Unsold19th Century Italian Try Plane, 23-in. body with faceted-edged handle and small tote, three dots laid out in a triangle and marked "MC," iron with a depiction of Napoleon and marked "Goldenberg more ...
19th Century Scrub Plane
Lot: 484Sold for: $246$20019th Century Scrub Plane, Europe, 26 1/2-in. body with a finely carved acanthus leaf decorated handle, and a convex sole, (lacking blade). Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
17th Century Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 485Sold for: $2,583$2,10017th Century Varloper or Long Plane, France, 35 1/2-in. fruitwood body with a double carved scrolled handle, deeply carved foliate design decoration in a tombstone-edged border, terminating in a more ...
Marked and Dated Fruitwood Try Plane
Lot: 486Sold for: $246$200Marked and Dated Fruitwood Try Plane, Europe, c. 1824, 27-in. body with shaped handle and tote, small diamond-shaped carving at the escapement, shaped toe and heel, beaded top edge, marked "1824" more ...
18th Century Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 487Sold for: $369$30018th Century Varloper or Long Plane, Europe, 29-in. oak body with carved flower and vase decoration at the handle with scrolled volutes adorning the sides, two simple carved flowers and rays more ...
18th Century Rebate or Rabbet Plane
Lot: 488Sold for: $3,567$2,90018th Century Rebate or Rabbet Plane, France, fully decorated 42-in. fruitwood body, twin shaped and sculpted handles with chip-carved and pierced volutes flanking the reverse-mounted iron blades. more ...
17th Century Italian Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 489Sold for: $431$35017th Century Italian Varloper or Long Plane, 24 1/2-in. fruitwood body with a delicately carved scroll- and step-decorated handle, cross decoration formed out of the escapement, small curved more ...
18th Century Rebat or Rabbet Plane
Lot: 490Sold for: $308$25018th Century Rebat or Rabbet Plane, probably France, 34-in. geometric-carved body with carved heart at the toe. Literature: L'outil et le Compagnon, pp. 26-27; Codes & Symbols of European Tools, more ...
Two Fred Kuntz Hand Planes
Lot: 491Sold for: $154$125Two Fred Kuntz Hand Planes, 18th century, both branded "Fred Kuntz" with symbol below, carved three-lobed shell escapement, a compass plane made of burl with shaped tote, the other with swag- and more ...
Dated Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 492Sold for: $277$225Dated Varloper or Long Plane, Europe, c. 1821, 32-in. fully decorated fruitwood body with sliding dovetailed applied handle, carved shell escapement, and toe, bird-form tote, and dated "1821" on the more ...
19th Century Austrian Long Plane
Lot: 493Sold for: $246$20019th Century Austrian Long Plane, c. 1812, 54-in. fruitwood body with five turned and carved handles, tombstone shaped escapement, delicately incised carved flowers and cross adorn the top, one side more ...
19th Century Dutch Long Plane
Lot: 494Sold for: $369$30019th Century Dutch Long Plane, c. 1844, 41 1/2-in. fruitwood body with beaded top edges, carved fish bone design wedge, four-lobed escapement with incised floral decoration, and simple chip-carved more ...
19th Century Varloper or Long Plane
Lot: 495Unsold19th Century Varloper or Long Plane, France, c. 1818, fully decorated 37-in. fruitwood body with chip-carved and scrolled sides, carved cross over the initials or logo "MARIA," and a stylized flower more ...
18th Century Brass Plumb Bob and Reel
Lot: 496Sold for: $431$35018th Century Brass Plumb Bob and Reel, France, cylindrical brass bob with spacer, reel marked "UVGT," and bob, lg. 1 3/4 in. Literature: Codes & Symbols of European Tools, p. 26; L'outil et le more ...
Three Early Brass Plumb Bobs
Lot: 497Sold for: $111$90Three Early Brass Plumb Bobs, Europe, two with wood spacers, and one with a steel tip, and engraved reel reading "James Kilgour Partick 1874." Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Two Wooden Plumb Bobs
Lot: 498Sold for: $62$50Two Wooden Plumb Bobs, Europe, 19th century, boxwood concentric stepped rings with brass tip, and knob, and a small rosewood example, lg. 3 to 4 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Five Plumb Bobs with Reels
Lot: 499Sold for: $215$175Five Plumb Bobs with Reels, Europe, 19th century, brass, and steel bobs with various wood reels, bob lg. 2 3/4 to 6 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Six Early Plumb Bobs
Lot: 500UnsoldSix Early Plumb Bobs, Europe, 19th century, two cylindrical brass bobs with engraved concentric rings, two lead bobs, a brass-cased lead bob, and a brass bob marked on bottom "Fayet Bourges C.L." more ...
Six Brass Plumb Bobs
Lot: 501Sold for: $246$200Six Brass Plumb Bobs, Europe, 19th century, a double-bob with screw ends caps, a small conical bob marked "London," with steel point, a steel-tipped bob with internal wind-up bobbin mechanism, a more ...
Early Cast Iron Beakhorn Stake or Anvil
Lot: 502Sold for: $37$30Early Cast Iron Beakhorn Stake or Anvil, lg. 24 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Five Blacksmith's Tools
Lot: 503UnsoldFive Blacksmith's Tools, 19th/20th century, three pairs of tongs, a rasp, and a U-shaped double-handled single-edged shaver. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three File Cutter's Hammers
Lot: 504Sold for: $492$400Three File Cutter's Hammers, France, 18th/ 19th century, one with possible touchmark. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Two 19th Century Iron Blacksmith's Tongs
Lot: 505Sold for: $62$50Two 19th Century Iron Blacksmith's Tongs, lg. 26 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Six Early Blacksmith's Hammers
Lot: 506Sold for: $154$125Six Early Blacksmith's Hammers, Europe, 19th century, various steel heads and handles, lg. 7 to 23 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Blacksmith or Saddler's Hammer
Lot: 507Sold for: $25$20Blacksmith or Saddler's Hammer, tapered handle engraved "R. Bardou/Macon a Dreux/1849," lg. 12 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Early Iron Punches
Lot: 508Sold for: $185$150Three Early Iron Punches, mounted in an oak block, block lg. 9 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Early Blacksmith's Mallet or Hammer
Lot: 509Sold for: $431$350Early Blacksmith's Mallet or Hammer, Europe, 17th/18th century, iron head stamped with an "R," lg. 14 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Early Mason's Trowels
Lot: 510Sold for: $62$50Three Early Mason's Trowels, France, 19th century, two with iron blades, one marked "M. Bouvais a Bordeaux" with a crown over ribbon stamp, brass-tipped and ferruled wooden handles, the other with more ...
Two Early Mason's Trowels
Lot: 511Sold for: $62$50Two Early Mason's Trowels, Europe, 18th/19th century, iron mudding trowel with braided handle and a brick layer's trowel, lg. 12 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Six Stone Mason's Rasps or Planes
Lot: 512Sold for: $37$30Six Stone Mason's Rasps or Planes, Europe, 19th century, various woods and iron rasp shapes, all but one marked. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Four 19th Century Steel-toothed Mason's Saws
Lot: 513UnsoldFour 19th Century Steel-toothed Mason's Saws, various teeth-per-inch blades, lg. 8 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
French Stonemaker's Carving Tool
Lot: 514Sold for: $98$80French Stonemaker's Carving Tool, wrought iron tool with interchangeable heads, dual maker's marks on the underside, and hardwood handle, lg. 11 1/4 in. Literature: Jean Claude Peretz, L'outil more ...
Thirty Mason's Chisels
Lot: 515Sold for: $123$100Thirty Mason's Chisels, iron shafts with various shaped profile edges, many with manufacturer's stamp or name, lg. 5 to 12 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Five Stone-shaping Tools
Lot: 516Sold for: $62$50Five Stone-shaping Tools, Europe, 19th century, an iron crandall, wood-handled mallet, wrench, and a spike or wedge. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Wrought Iron Stone Mason's Tool
Lot: 517Sold for: $123$100Wrought Iron Stone Mason's Tool, France, 18th/19th century, fifteen double-edged iron shanks wrapped in a steel band, mounted to a wooden handle. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Four Iron Wedges
Lot: 518Sold for: $86$70Four Iron Wedges, two with engraved fish bone designs, an ash-bodied wedge with iron ferrule and tip, and another with small socketed wedge, lg. 6 to 11 in. Literature: Codes & Symbols of more ...
Two Bone-handled Timber Scribes and a Small Awl
Lot: 519Sold for: $400$325Two Bone-handled Timber Scribes and a Small Awl, France, scribes with chamfered handles and brass ferrule and butt cap; the brass and iron prick with floral-decorated handle, lg. 4 to 5 in. more ...
Five 19th Century Customs & Excise Timber Scribes
Lot: 520Sold for: $215$175Five 19th Century Customs & Excise Timber Scribes, France, iron blades with faceted boxwood handles, lg. 5 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Twenty-one Timber Scribes
Lot: 521Sold for: $1,046$850Twenty-one Timber Scribes, France and United Kingdom, 19th century, various size scribes with wooden handles, many marked with manufacturer's name or symbols, one in the form of a compass, lg. 5 to more ...
Eight Horn-handled Timber Scribes
Lot: 522Sold for: $431$350Eight Horn-handled Timber Scribes, France, iron tool with brass ferrules, some marked with makers' names, lg. 5 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Two Early Vine or Vineyard Axes
Lot: 523Sold for: $369$300Two Early Vine or Vineyard Axes, Brittany and Savoy, France, both single-edge iron blades, one with maker's mark, lg. 15 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Marked and Dated Vine or Vineyard Axe
Lot: 524Sold for: $431$350Marked and Dated Vine or Vineyard Axe, Jarnioux, France, c. 1864, single-edge iron blade marked "B. Tondu a Jarnioux 1864" above a double fish bone symbol, blade lg. 24 in. Literature: Codes & more ...
Two Pairs of 19th Century Glassblowing Shears or Nippers and an Early Wrought Iron Blowpipe
Lot: 525Sold for: $246$200Two Pairs of 19th Century Glassblowing Shears or Nippers and an Early Wrought Iron Blowpipe, Italy and Europe, the scrolled-handle shears with stamped mark on outer blade; 64-in. trumpet-shaped more ...
Wrought Iron Double-edged Pruning Tool
Lot: 526UnsoldWrought Iron Double-edged Pruning Tool, France, 19th century, lg. 10 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Billhooks or Roncolas
Lot: 527Sold for: $154$125Three Billhooks or Roncolas, France, 19th century, iron blades with turned wooden handles, one blade marked "A Tfans," lg. 10 to 14 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Single-edge Billhook or Roncola
Lot: 528Sold for: $74$60Single-edge Billhook or Roncola, 18th century, iron blade with shaped and turned shaft terminating in a crown-shaped ferrule, with an incised fruitwood handle, lg. 11 1/2 in. Provenance: The more ...
19th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe
Lot: 529Sold for: $400$32519th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe, Bugey, France, wrought iron blade with touchmarks, mortised wood handle, lg. 30 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
18th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe
Lot: 530Sold for: $461$37518th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe, France, wrought iron double-edge blade with fruitwood handle, lg. 51 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
18th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe
Lot: 531Sold for: $554$45018th Century Vine or Vineyard Axe, France, wrought iron blade with triple clover touchmarks, (lacking handle),lg. 29 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Wooden Finger Protectors
Lot: 532Sold for: $123$100Three Wooden Finger Protectors, France, 19th century, lg. 5 to 6 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Three Wooden Bale or Hay-winders
Lot: 533UnsoldThree Wooden Bale or Hay-winders, France, 19th century, lg. 5 to 9 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Four Japanese Hay Hooks
Lot: 534Sold for: $62$50Four Japanese Hay Hooks, wooden handles with steel shafts/blades, lg. 9 to 13 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Seven Vine Pruning or Billhooks
Lot: 535Sold for: $185$150Seven Vine Pruning or Billhooks, France, 19th century, wooden handles and steel blades, one with folding blade and decorated handle, lg. 6 to 11 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent more ...
Early French Boxwood Lark Lure and a Dated Carved Wooden Sheath
Lot: 536Sold for: $1,353$1,100Early French Boxwood Lark Lure and a Dated Carved Wooden Sheath, inset mirrors adorn the rotating head mounted to a tapered stem; octagonal fully carved sheath marked "1872," lg. 9 to 18 1/2 in. more ...
French Double-handled Hay Knife
Lot: 537Sold for: $49$40French Double-handled Hay Knife, 19th century, lg. 33 1/2 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...
Nine Agricultural or Farming Tools
Lot: 538Sold for: $62$50Nine Agricultural or Farming Tools, 19th century, scythe, sickles, trowel, shears, and rakes, lg. 12 to 33 in. Provenance: The property of Laurent Adamowicz. more ...