Baldwin Plane Company Grooving Planes

 Baldwin Grooving Planes Wall Art

Adapted from the original Baldwin Plane Manufacturer Trade Catalog in my personal collection.

The 1858 Baldwin Plane trade catalog has an interesting history. I purchased it as part of an ephemera lot from a South Carolina dealer. Everything in the lot was heavily soot and smoke stained, water stained and stinky. From what I could learn of the lot, it came from the attic of a defunct retail hardware store in Charleston, SC. Unfortunately, by the time I learned of the auction lot, the rest of the attic contents had been sold. The catalog paper is very fragile. Dry, stained, wrinkled and difficult to conserve. I guess I put in around 30 hours of work on the pages just to get them to the point at which I could image them.

The history of the Baldwin Plane Manufactory 

This page is entitled "Grooving Planes". Unlike modern wood plane nomenclature, Baldwin named any plane capable of making grooves, a grooving plane.

The following planes listed on this page:

1. No. 93, Ferruled Arm
2. No. 97, Screw Arm
3. No. 98, Boxwood Screw Arm
4. No. 99, All Boxwood Screw Arm
5. No. 102, Solid Handle
6. No. 103, All Boxwood, Solid Handle, Screw Arm
7. No. 123, Board Match, Faced
8. No. 135, Twin Match, Faced
9. No. 141, Solid Handle Match
10. No. 155, Plank Match, Faced

Extensive work in Photoshop produced a facsimile of what the catalog page looked like at the time of printing. I have added the image to my Fine Art America / Pixels.com shop as wall art along with with few other options.

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