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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4407808, member: 360"]OK. Did some late-night Google-searching.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I THINK that it is a DAVIS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY machine, or even a STANDARD sewing machine company machine. </p><p><br /></p><p>They both produced machines for Sears & Roebuck mail-order catalogs, with their machines given various names or titles, like the Minnesota, the Paragon, etc etc etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>They all have the same very square-looking slide-plates and needle-plate at the base of the machine underneath the needle mechanism, with the semicircular cutouts on the plates to grip them with. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I suspected, such a machine would date to around 1900, but being more precise than that would be pretty difficult, without looking up patent-dates. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://preview.redd.it/c2tvzz7xxav61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f0b00ea75c5baa38ef2e3a5645a9195ef323ab8d" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a DAVIS sewing machine from the early 1900s. Identical plates, identical bobbin-winder, but it doesn't have the front-mounted tension springs. As you can see, the company rebadged their machines like crazy, so this is about as close as you're going to get to finding out the actual manufacturer. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I said, there were dozens and dozens of little-little sewing machine factories in the USA at the turn of the century, so there would've been loads of tiny variations between machine-models, even within the same company. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just to take Singer as an example - you have the 28, the 27, the 128, the 127...and they all vary slightly, but they are still the same essential machine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4407808, member: 360"]OK. Did some late-night Google-searching. And I THINK that it is a DAVIS SEWING MACHINE COMPANY machine, or even a STANDARD sewing machine company machine. They both produced machines for Sears & Roebuck mail-order catalogs, with their machines given various names or titles, like the Minnesota, the Paragon, etc etc etc. They all have the same very square-looking slide-plates and needle-plate at the base of the machine underneath the needle mechanism, with the semicircular cutouts on the plates to grip them with. As I suspected, such a machine would date to around 1900, but being more precise than that would be pretty difficult, without looking up patent-dates. [IMG]https://preview.redd.it/c2tvzz7xxav61.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f0b00ea75c5baa38ef2e3a5645a9195ef323ab8d[/IMG] Here's a DAVIS sewing machine from the early 1900s. Identical plates, identical bobbin-winder, but it doesn't have the front-mounted tension springs. As you can see, the company rebadged their machines like crazy, so this is about as close as you're going to get to finding out the actual manufacturer. As I said, there were dozens and dozens of little-little sewing machine factories in the USA at the turn of the century, so there would've been loads of tiny variations between machine-models, even within the same company. Just to take Singer as an example - you have the 28, the 27, the 128, the 127...and they all vary slightly, but they are still the same essential machine.[/QUOTE]
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