Plane identity - Help please

[Ken Werner]

So I was at an incredible estate sale today, see my posts in classified for items for sale. Anyway, I picked up these planes. The narrower one looks to me to be a scrub plane. The iron is thick and tapers. The mark is very hard to read, but the plane is marked Reed & Auerbach. Interestingly, a user appears to have stamped the plane "F. Uhl Austria"

The wider, looks to be a smoothing plane. Blade is mounted at 45 degrees. Neither plane has a chip breaker. They both have assymetric horns, which are really cool in the hand. This iron is also thick, tapered and bears the mark
Joh Weiss & Sohn, Wien

Images are attached. Any info on origin, age, value, function? Thanks.

Ken

[Wolfgang Jordan]

Ken,

these are Austrian planes made by "Joh. Weiss & Sohn (son)" in Vienna/Austria. The narrow plane is a scrub plane and the wide one a jack plane (called "Schlichthobel" in German). Look here for more information (pictures of planes and trademarks) about Weiss:

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/weiss.phtml

And here's some company history in English:

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hers..._history.phtml

Your trademark has been registered in 1897. The planes may have been made around 1900-1920. Weiss made and exported a lot of planes and they are quite common.

Wolfgang

[Ken Werner]

Danke, Wolfgang. Great info. Wish I could read [and understand] German.

Ken

[Wolfgang Jordan]

I forgot to say that part I of the Joh. Weiss 1909 catalog reprint can be found online:

http://www.handplane.com/joh-weiss-s...catalog-part-i

Ken's planes are No. 1 and 2 on the first page.

Wolfgang

[Ken Werner]

My son showed me how to translate the page into English:

http://www.google.com/translate?u=ht...&sl=auto&tl=en

Thanks again Wolfgang.

Ken

[Rob Luter]

It seems I have their cousins in my shop.