Lucky day

[RedVise]

I dont buy planes as people tend to think they are all valuable, and I dont know which are and are not.
But I was hitting yard sales yesterday on my lunch hour and this guy is telling me he is trying to raise money to buy a bike for his kid,  so I dont bargin too hard and buy a small wooden box, older brace with a wing nut tightener and the narrow plane for $20. Now I tend to be a $1, $2 buyer, I AM cheap, so $20 was a chunk of my tool budget for the weekend. I didnt even bring them in to research last night.
Today was slow to average for tool buying at the yard sales, and I did buy a t Shirt from the PBA raising money for two local LEOs families (2 officers were killed in the line of duty this year). So I knocked off for the day feeling pretty good and started trying to find some info on this plane.
It is marked Sargent , but has no model number, so I was floundering until I tried e bay and discovered this:
A Lady Bug Bullnose Rabbet plane !   Holy Smokes !
Now mine is not as nice as the one that is on e bay now, but I think I can turn a buck on this tool.
Boy, will my wife be surprised !!

Merry Christmas to the Tool Talk foum !!
Brian L.

[Corey]

Thats a very cool looking plane.  Nice find!

[fliffy42]

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!

[rusty]

Well,now, that's sure not your everyday bench plane....

It has enough pizazz to sell as an art object ....

Very kewl :)

[jimwrench]

You did gooood. Sargent made several in 1506 to 1509 series. Length and width narrows them down to particular model. Some models had fence and depth gage but some didn't.

[Branson]

What a find!  And apparently, what a price!   A little attention with a bit of Kerosene and a piece of terry cloth, and it will look a lot closer to the one on eBay.  Congratulations.

[johnsironsanctuary]

Old time casting designers certainly had a way of taking an everyday work tool and turning it into a sculpted work of art!

[lbgradwell]

Wow! You really lucked out there!

[gibsontool]

Very nice,definately a lucky day

[scottg]

Holy Mackerel!
A  ladybug!!! A real ladybug!!
I think this is one is the regular nose. Bullnose is shorter.
I'd rather have regular anyway
Outstanding find!
yours Scott

[RedVise]

Flabergasted is not a word I use a lot, but was truely appropriate when I found this one below  listed on the bay.
I waiting for that auction to finish and then I will list mine.
It's a beautiful piece, but will have to be converted to dollars. I disassembled it for cleaning and was wondering if the front part (nose?) would slide out. Not a problem, after who knows how many years it came right out.
Here are a couple of pics after a light cleaning.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300636421153?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648

Seems to have beena a very lucky day, remember the brace with a wing nut tightner I purchased at the same time?
Looks like it is a Fray Spofford  with the pewter rings  on the handle.  Dang !!

Brian L.

[Stoney]

Redvice I like yours better.  Looks like the one on ebay has been over cleaned.

[RedVise]

Redvice I like yours better.  Looks like the one on ebay has been over cleaned.

That one just sold for $587, shore was shiny !!
Mine has wear where you hold it, definitely was a working tool.

Brian L.

[rusty]

The one on ebay was a working tool also, look at the bottom, it is filled with little scratches and nicks. That was not new in the box never used. Someone polished the daylights out of it ;P

Still, it had all of it's nickel, and all of it's parts....
It also seems to be a different model than yours, it isn't hollow in front, and seems slightly narrower. Have you figured out which model you have yet?

[RedVise]

The blade clamp had 1507 cast into it. Also the nose and body has a "5" stamped into them.

From a listing on ebay (FWIW):  The smallest was the No 1507 , 5½ inches long with a ¾ inch iron.

Which matches mine.

Brian L.