very unusual Morin bench plane w/ brass frame & wood infill & handle

Description

You are bidding
on one unusual Morin wood plane as pictured.
It is marked "MORIN" on the diagonal handle near the front end, and "Btd SGDG" on the cap. The iron is unmarked.
Overall length is about 11-13/16", and the iron is about 1-7/8" in width. The iron is about 8-3/8" in length.
The plane is French in origin, but I can't tell you anything about who made it. My guess is that "SGDG" is related to the French patent system, but I don't know that for sure.
There are a few of these planes pictured on the internet, and those planes don't have the infill under the iron, and those planes all seem to have a bakelite rear handle. This plane has a wood rear handle, that seems to fit well, and has the wood infill under the iron. The rear handle is glued in place at the top and bottom, while the infill piece is loose and just sitting there. Are they original, perhaps a later variation, or did someone skillfully make them? I don't know.
The adjustment of the iron is strange, as the others on the internet will attest. The throat is really tight, and the pivoting cap tends to want to flex the iron downward. If you install the iron bevel down, as you would expect, the front of the iron is really tight against the front of the throat, although tightening the cap screw will flex the iron down slightly. I finally put the iron in upside down, bevel up, so at least I could remove it. The lever will secure the iron, but you have to slide the iron up a ways to get the cap to pivot out of the way so the lever can turn 180 degrees where the iron can be lifted off. The iron appears to be original, based on photographs of irons in other Morin planes, and I vaguely remember another one of these that I had some years back.
The frame and most of the hardware are brass.
Condition, other than the question of whether the handle and infill are original, is good to very good. It would benefit from a light cleaning. The sole has a few scratches, and the iron has some faint almost imperceptible pitting.
Except as noted, t
here are no cracks or chips or chunks missing from any of the castings, and everything operates properly.
SHIPPING: 4 pounds when boxed, insurance and signature confirmation are included. N
o International shipping.
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