Got off my duff and had a look at Sellens' "Woodworking Planes"

He lists the following which seems a good match for Old Bony.
"Match Planes, moving fnce. These planes have a movable fence attached 
to the sole with two recessed -head screws working in a slot in the same 
manner as the common filletster. They were available with and without 
plating." The illustrations for that item show one with a wide iron, 
like that of a bench plane., another with a narrow blade like a fillister.

He also lists these:
"Match planes, plank. Length 14-15 inches, size for 1, 1-1/4, 1-1/2, 2 
inch stock thickness. These planes were available plated and with box 
strips. "
The illustrations show a pair of planes, one with a fixed fence and wide 
bench-plane type of iron, the other a narrow plough-like skated iron.

FWIW
Don


On 2020-04-08 5:10 p.m., scott grandstaff wrote:
>
> Hey Ed!! Thanks for the clue!
>  Yup, there can be no doubt what it is. Not off the menu at all!
> Its just rare to see anything like this locally.
>
> Not a chance of a grain elevator within 200 miles.  Rocky soil, steep 
> mountain country has few opportunities to grow a big crop of grain.
>         I am wondering though. The mine aspect sounds good.
>
>  I wonder if the plane was about jointing planks for mining flumes. 
> They built sometimes impressive channels, miles of ditching and large 
> wooden flumes to cross the deep places.
> To bring in water for placer mining.
>
> There is an old mine downriver from me that was all done by hand.
> Just walking through it makes you feel like an ant!   There are 
> literally miles of ditches fanning out, bringing several creeks into 
> play.
>   A large flume would need a way to keep water from gushing out the 
> bottom of it?
>
> Still no idea what it was boned.
> And it does appear to be bone from the grain. Ivory might put it in 
> the jeweler category? haahah
>
> I once saw for sale, (but they wanted too much), a jointer plane at 
> least 5' long.
> Not a coopers tool, this one was too narrow (about 2 1/2" blade maybe) 
> and had a tote on it.
> Asking around that time it was John Walters who identified it as a 
> tank jointer.
> We had lots of sometimes sizeable redwood water tanks that were built 
> on the spot.
>  Holding water for mining tactics. Seemed perfectly logical the minute 
> he said it.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised to find flume planks were also being jointed.
>
> Yeah the Klamath river valley was once touted as "A million dollars a 
> mile!"
> (when gold was 20 dollars an ounce)   They said some places they 
> picked it up like berries in a patch.
>
> The county courthouse used to have a fantastic display of nuggets the 
> size of your hand and goose eggs etc,...........plus pans, boxes and 2 
> gallon buckets full of smaller gold nuggets.
>
> Sadly a few years back some guys broke in (next door to the police 
> station with patrol cars parked all around??) and stole it.
> The "thieves" were quickly caught, but no gold was ever recovered.
>   yours scott
>

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