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You are offerding on one long narrow L & I J White socket style wood gouge as pictured.
It is marked with "L & I J WHITE" on the inside surface as shown.
Blade width is about .275" to .280" for its entire length, or not quite a 32nd over 1/4". The two sides are parallel to each other, forming a square edged gouge.
Length of the blade, from the sharp edge to where it starts to narrow down to the socket, is about 11-1/4", and length of the steel portion (blade & socket) is about 14-3/8". Overall length including the handle is about 18-9/16".
Brothers Leonard and Ichabod Jewett White and their successors made edge tools from 1837 to 1928, mostly in Buffalo, New York.
Condition of the gouge is good to very good, with some very scattered little spots of patina (color) or light pitting, with much of that pitting near the sharp edge. Putting a straightedge on the back yields a very gentle bow, with a gap in the middle of maybe a 16th (in the 11-1/4" of length).
Condition of the handle is fair, not fitting as well as it could at the socket end, and the ferrule on the struck end has started to split out the wood around it. It would benefit from a cleaning.
SHIPPING: 1 or 2 pounds when boxed, shipped US Postal Service Ground Advantage, insurance and tracking are included. NoInternational shipping.
l sell what I enjoy, and I collect antique woodworking tools andI enjoy photography!The queue is overflowing with tools right now, as they seem to be finding me faster than I can list them. So please keep watching as I have LOTS more to list!
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sales: I won’t end an sale listing early to sell it to you directly. As a buyer, I really dislike going back at the end of an sale to offer, only to discover that the seller had ended the sale early. So I won’t do that for you, or to you.
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I hope someday I will meet some of you as we trudge the happy road of tool collecting!
