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Glad you got it figured out! Shapleigh was a famous and very large hardware company in the early 20th…Saunders Norvell, who was one of the driving forces behind the success of the E.C Simmons (another famous hardware/tool maker company) and who would go on to be president of Remington Small Arms took over the company after the death of its founder and it became the Norvell-Shapleigh Co. in 1901. It was renamed the Shapleigh Company again in 1918. Diamond Edge and Keen Kutter, two very well known and well respected brands were among the nameplates manufactured by their company. I’d say that the plane and blade are probably of pretty good quality, comparable to a contemporary Stanley and the name dates them to the 1901-1918 period.