A few days back I posted pictures of this plane I found in Cookeville, TN.
A cooper’s plane?
Which breaks down to this collection of parts:
Unique plane and the curved blade makes it more interesting.
Monday night, a few of us were sitting around looking at the plane and trying to figure out who made the blade. None of us could read the logo on the blade. The best we could do was the Cast Steel and Sheffield.
Is the first the best? Can anyone offer a guess?
I took three more pictures with various angles of raking light. Are any of these useful?
or this one?
Who made it?
If any of you have any ideas from whence this came, feel free to share.
Thanks
The Furniture Record 
Try Jim Hendricks over at Unplugged woodworkers on Facebook he is my go to guy for any infor on planes of all types.
Have you tried doing a rubbing? I find that thin paper and charcoal work the best because they only require a light touch.
Have you tried doing a rubbing? Sometimes that can pick up details that are hard to discern with the naked eye.
Puting a paper on it and rubbing a soft pencil on the paper might help.
Sylvain.
Looks to me like it could be an Isaac Greaves, although there’s no emblem in the center. Here’s one for comparison: http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/uploads/monthly_07_2010/post-188-093781100%201278529424.jpg
Definitely looks like a cooper’s plane. Looks like the bottom is rounded front to back and side to side? If so it is an inside shave used to clean up the inside of a barrel.
Besides a rubbing, a casting or an impression in playdough, then filling up the mould with a contractsing colour, might help capture some of the letters
Have you tried an Ouija board? It might be possible to contact the spirits of those that used the plane years ago.
What about smoke printing, I saw a post on Face book the other day. It showed the steps and the results.
Ibbotson, Sheffield
http://www.ebay.tv/sch/Tools-Hardware-Locks-/13849/i.html?_sop=15&_nkw=ibbotson&_frs=1