Plane, ogee moulding plane

This common ogee moulding plane was made by Spence and King of Hull and owned by W Gray. It forms part of a large set of moulding planes housed in an early 19th century toolchest. A metal name plate found in one of the drawers of the toolchest is marked 'W Gray, Cavendish Grove, Wandsworth Road'. Gray was living in this area in the mid 19th century. However, many of the boxwood planes, stamped with his owner's mark, were made twenty or thirty years earlier. This plane dating from late 18th century has two other possibly earlier owner's marks, 'J Robinson' and 'W Orpwood' along side that of 'W Gray'.