ULTRA RARE Stanley Shuttle maker bench plane Bed Rock sides EARLY PRODUCTION

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You are bidding on a VERY RARE Stanley "Shuttle" plane!  I found the following on the internet, I believe that this is an extremely rare plane that was taken from unsold stock and converted to sell by Stanley as a smoother plane, per Patrick A Leach of Supertool and Superior Works below:
Stanley Rule & Level : Rare "Shuttle" Plane. Marked Hfl L 2082 E". Never offered in any Stanley catalog, perhaps a dozen or more of these highly specialized planes have come to light since the first example was identified more than a decade ago. Produced under a patent which had been granted to Lodowick Leeds, of New London, Connecticut on November 24, 1885, it is believed that this plane was offered by Stanley to the textile industry, where it was used for planing loom shuttles to shape. According to Volume II of Roger Smith's series on patented planes, Stanley very likely manufacture this plane for 35 or 40 years, directly marketing it to textile mills during that time. A very small number of these planes are known with a frame attachment attached to the body. The identification number is cast into the body of the plane. (Courtesy and (C) Martin J. Donnelly)
Extremely rare (and I don't use that term loosely here) HFL-L2082E smoothing plane; this started out in life as the shuttle plane, but when the rush to own those dried up Stanley was left with a bunch of castings and no buyers; someone got the brilliant idea to mill off the cast boss at the toe, mill the sides down, and then sell the plane as a smoother thereby recouping some of their investment; this is such a plane, the second to show up (I've found both of them), and is 100% guaranteed to be a Stanley effort; as-found, and for the guy who has to have the rarest of the rare in Stanley (Courtesy and (C) Patrick Leach)
Originally made for textile mill shuttle makers!  One online source said that only a dozen or so of these planes have ever surfaced for sale, but I don't know if that is true or not.  Based on my limited research, most have numbers cast into the plane body, and the early ones do not.  This one has no numbers cast.  Unlike the other planes that I saw, this one does not have holes in the upper part of the flat sides of the plane body.  This plane is missing its lever cap, chipbreaker and blade, which are common and easily replaced.  It may also be missing other parts, which may not be as easy to come by.  THIS PLANE IS BEING SOLD FOR PARTS / REPAIR / RESTORATION PURPOSES ONLY.   Buyer to pay .90 for shipping and insurance.