What is this!

[sb]

Has an adjustable blade on it

[PFSchaffner]

Box scraper? perhaps with the handle wrong-way-round?

[mikeswrenches]

It looks like a box scraper but with the wrong blade.  Probably? A Stanley.

Mike

[PFSchaffner]

Yeah, should look like this, more or less (from the 1902 White and Van Glahn hdw catalog):

[Bill Houghton]

I've always found it interesting that the tool's called a box "scraper," when it's actually a very small scrub plane.  For those unfamiliar with the tool, it was developed for removing the labels (particularly, I imagine, stenciled on labels) from wooden shipping crates, so they could be re-used.

I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.

[sb]

Thanks for y'all's help

[amecks]

Bill - quote - I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.

Last night on a TV food program they were using a cheese shaver with a pivoting head - it looked just like this tool!  Maybe you need to move it to the kitchen!

Al

[Plyerman]

Tattoo remover!

[Chillylulu]

I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.

A garden hoe for fairy gardens?

Chilly