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Message:: [QUOTE="Shangas, post: 3878796, member: 360"]Impossible to tell anything without photographs, and the name on the side of the machine is unlikely to be helpful. It was a very very VERY common practice to "rebadge" machines in the old days. So like - a company produces the machine. And sells it to a retailer. The retailer takes off the manufacturer details, and puts on their own details, and sells it under their name. So like, you might have a machine made by A.Sewing.Machine.Company, sold to A.Sewing.Centre. ASC will simply stamp the machine with "A.Sewing.Centre" on the side. That doesn't mean that they made it. Just that they sold it. You may never know who actually made it. Sometimes you can, but not always. This was a VERY common practice. It happened all over the world. It was especially prevalent in Germany, America, and Japan. Even in Australia, which isn't famous for its manufacturing heritage - got in on the rebadging of machines. The only way to know for sure (or at least, be more sure than not) would be to see the machine and make deductions based on the photographs. A machine made in the 1950s is almost certainly one that was made in Japan, and sold overseas to other countries & companies, which would then have stamped or riveted on their own branding. That being the case, it is MOST LIKELY Japanese, but I won't know until I see it. Thusfar, this is just speculation.[/QUOTE]