Bidspirit auction | Continental-Style Wooden Horn-Handled Smoothing Plane

Continental-Style Wooden Horn-Handled Smoothing Plane - A continental-style wooden smoothing plane, featuring an integrated horn-shaped handle at the front of the stock. The body and wedge are constructed from a dense hardwood, likely beech. It is fitted with a steel cutting iron and a steel cap iron. The cutting iron bears a stamped mark featuring the word EXTRA positioned below a manufacturer's crest which is largely illegible due to surface corrosion. This design is typical of 19th to early 20th-century European tool production, resembling examples by makers such as Peugeot Freres and Goldenberg.