Stanley Bailey plane no.5 type 17 retailer (1942-1945)

Stanley plane no. 5 tote has previous repair . Plastic adjustment retailer knob cracked

These Planes are Barn finds.
They were Lightly cleaned oiled and waxed.
It will take very little to put back into service.
please refer to pictures for condition such as rust ,pitting , paint splatter etc:
any cracks ,repairs or missing parts will be noted



a little history:

As a young man in 1843, Frederick T. Stanley founded The Stanley Works -- a small company located in New Britain, Connecticut that manufactured hinges, bolts and other door hardware in a one-story wooden building. His vision was to create a hardware company with unsurpassed customer service, product innovation and integrity -- and to offer products that would become the first choice among professionals around the world. With the early success of this mission and an increasing demand for his high-quality goods, Mr. Stanley began exporting his products in the 1870s.

... thus reads the official short version of the Stanley company history. There would be volumes to add and not all the chapters are pretty! The Stanley Works embodied the best and the worst of the rise and rise of the American dream of industrial capitalism in the middle of the 19th century. By the 1860s metal planes made their big breakthrough and Stanley managed to get hold of most of them! The modus operandi was simple: buy a budding plane company, integrate their production into the Stanley range or kill it off. Stanley quickly acquired the workforce and the marketing know-how to make those planes a success where others probably would have failed.