I bought a Stanley Bailey No. 6 online recently. It appears to be a Type 10 (two patent dates on the bed, and a frog adjustment screw).
The strange thing is that the plane iron has "STANLEY" in block letters stamped across the top. Nothing else. No other words, pictures, outlines; nothing.
When I look at pictures at the Rex Mill Pictorial Type Study (https://home.comcast.net/~stanleyplanes/planes101/typing/typing.htm), I can't find any that match. Could this be a replacement plane iron? Was it left unfinished on a Friday afternoon by an employee? Any ideas?
The strange thing is that the plane iron has "STANLEY" in block letters stamped across the top. Nothing else. No other words, pictures, outlines; nothing.
When I look at pictures at the Rex Mill Pictorial Type Study (https://home.comcast.net/~stanleyplanes/planes101/typing/typing.htm), I can't find any that match. Could this be a replacement plane iron? Was it left unfinished on a Friday afternoon by an employee? Any ideas?