B68-658 METAL PLOW PLANE. Elihu Dutcher. Dutcher, of Pownal, VT, worked in the 1840s and made one of the earliest known metal plows. Although the handful of known examples have the word "Patent" cast into the frame no patent has been identified. Unlike the example in PTAMPIA I, Figure 88, this one has slotted nuts holding the arm and depth stops, all identical and clearly original. The tote and wooden fence have wear but no major damage, tote is likely a replacement. There's a crack in the cast iron part of the fence and the left depth stop is missing. Unlike some examples, the name "Dutcher" is not cast into the fence, but "ED" is cast into the right side depth stop. A decent example of one of the rarest known metal plows. From the collection of Harold Unruh. Good 2000-4000