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Those examples look like they have seen a fair amount of use from the size of the mouths.
Don’t worry – it’s usually easy to get a wooden plane working as per the videos and advice posted, so long as you have another flat plane, a little planing skill and a little blade sharpening skill.
The third plane is a little bit unusual – the open side is consistent with some kind of rebate plane. It looks a bit like a badger plane – a large rebate plane except…
1. The blade appears square rather than skewed as badgers normally are
2. There is some kind of cut-away on the inside of the rebate side that might have acted as a depth stop or for different fillets to be added. Perhaps some part is now missing.
Whatever it was it looks like it might have had quite a specific use.
I’m sure someone else around here will know better exactly what it is, and some more pictures from different angles may help.