lovely site I have just bought a nice no 4 from ebay the war finish one and was looking for some history and found this site great stuff I am not really a collector but very keen diyer so buy tools to use which I think is better than just looking at them, in my younger days when I was a labourer in the building trade I worked with a lovely old chippy who preferred record to stanley planes and he taught me a lot and ever since then i have bought record cheers sorry to go on. fred