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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4407703, member: 360"]The machine is a vibrating-shuttle model, probably from the turn of the last century. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was really common to manufacture machines and sell them onto department-stores and sewing-shops and stuff like that, and to pay a little extra to get your own shop or company's name printed on the mahcine-body or stamped onto the badge. Called "private label" or "rebadged" machines. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not familiar with this EXACT model, but the general styling looks to be early 1900s, likely before WWI. I don't see anything here that would link it to a specific manufacturer, but there were loads of them in the USA in the 1800s and early 1900s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just off the top of my head:</p><p><br /></p><p>New Home, Gibbs & Wilcox, Wheeler & Wilson, Singer, White, National, etc, etc, etc, etc. Sewing machines were big business in the late 1800s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Provided you have all the parts, and the machine takes standard domestic machine-needles (which haven't changed significantly since the 1880s), it should still be operational. Killing these machines is harder than nuking Freddy Kruger.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4407703, member: 360"]The machine is a vibrating-shuttle model, probably from the turn of the last century. It was really common to manufacture machines and sell them onto department-stores and sewing-shops and stuff like that, and to pay a little extra to get your own shop or company's name printed on the mahcine-body or stamped onto the badge. Called "private label" or "rebadged" machines. I'm not familiar with this EXACT model, but the general styling looks to be early 1900s, likely before WWI. I don't see anything here that would link it to a specific manufacturer, but there were loads of them in the USA in the 1800s and early 1900s. Just off the top of my head: New Home, Gibbs & Wilcox, Wheeler & Wilson, Singer, White, National, etc, etc, etc, etc. Sewing machines were big business in the late 1800s. Provided you have all the parts, and the machine takes standard domestic machine-needles (which haven't changed significantly since the 1880s), it should still be operational. Killing these machines is harder than nuking Freddy Kruger.[/QUOTE]
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