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Artifact Spotlight - Wood Plane

Artifact No.: CSTM AO0045.140
Date: ca. 1863

Wood Plane

This hollow and round plane comes from the collection of tools that belonged to Mr. James Anthony. Mr. Anthony, a carpenter, did his apprenticeship in England and came to Canada in 1905. In 1916, after a fire destroyed the Centre Block of Parliament in Ottawa, he was hired as a foreman of the reconstruction crew.

Wood Plane

The plane was made by Moseley & Co. in London, England sometime before 1862. When he acquired the plane, Mr. Anthony stamped his name over the names of previous owners Thomas Minors and Fred Wellington. Minors and Wellington were carpenters in Truro, Cornwall (UK); they were some 30 years older than Mr. Anthony, and lived within a few blocks of his home in England.

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