A rebate plane with two boxing strips with owners' stamp R·B (zb) and F x B and date 1742 - 11 5/8in. x 1¼in; an ovolo by Cogdell with F x B stamp, dated 1738 - 10 1/8in. long; and a torus bead by Moseley & Son, London, stamped W. Bottle 1842.

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A rebate plane with two boxing strips with owners' stamp R·B (zb) and F x B and date 1742 - 11 5/8in. x 1¼in; an ovolo by Cogdell with F x B stamp, dated 1738 - 10 1/8in. long; and a torus bead by Moseley & Son, London, stamped W. Bottle 1842.
See Illustration (3)

拍品專文

These three plane were owned by successive generations of the Bottle family of Harrietsham, in Kent. F x B was Ferdinand Bottle. Planes from this family of builders were often made in their own workshops, as the 1742 example, and dating is a characteristic seldom found in other English workshops.