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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 333366, member: 360"]MoP and gold-leaf etc, were common on European machines in the 1800s and early 1900s. You have to remember that sewing machines were almost luxury items in their day. If you owned one, you had a lot of money (or were very good at managing not much money!). </p><p><br /></p><p>They were very expensive. They were built to literally last forever. And they had to, because nobody would buy a machine that did not, because they cost so much to begin with. They were treated as functional, and practical works of art. You'd just spent several dollars on a sewing machine - you wanted it to look amazing!! </p><p><br /></p><p>Something like that would've sat in a living room in the corner, or in the front parlour or sewing-room, and it would've been a talking-point, a conversation starter, a piece of decoration. </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1895 or thereabouts, a machine like this would not have been cheap by any means.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 333366, member: 360"]MoP and gold-leaf etc, were common on European machines in the 1800s and early 1900s. You have to remember that sewing machines were almost luxury items in their day. If you owned one, you had a lot of money (or were very good at managing not much money!). They were very expensive. They were built to literally last forever. And they had to, because nobody would buy a machine that did not, because they cost so much to begin with. They were treated as functional, and practical works of art. You'd just spent several dollars on a sewing machine - you wanted it to look amazing!! Something like that would've sat in a living room in the corner, or in the front parlour or sewing-room, and it would've been a talking-point, a conversation starter, a piece of decoration. In 1895 or thereabouts, a machine like this would not have been cheap by any means.[/QUOTE]
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