This is one way to save on electric

[CrealCritter]

I bought my wife a "new" foot powered sewing machine it weighs about 150 lbs.

 

[CrealCritter]

For it's age the gold leafing is still in pretty good shape. They don't make stuff like this anymore, I mean it's actually steel and not plastic.

 

[Britesea]

Beautiful! And the veneers look to be in good shape still. I don't know where else they might be available, but I know you can get most of the parts- like belts and such- from Lehman's.

I have one also, and I remember using it to sew up a canvas pavilion for the SCA... I'll tell ya, you can work up quite a sweat working those long seams, lol!

 

[CrealCritter]

I agree it is pretty cool... Its like a work of art. I'm curious how old it is? It even has old stuff in the drawers.

 

[CrealCritter]

Ok durr I'm a guy ok. I had it turned around backwards. I got to looking at it and it had a center drawer and I'm like wait a minute, I put the side drawers in backwards .

Anyways pics of the FRONT and serial number.

 

[sumi]

I think it may be a bit older than that. Have a look here: http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-no-prefix-serial-numbers.html

 

[CrealCritter]

I also bought this plain jane old solid wood beech wood table. It's freaking old... It has square nuts and old cast iron wood screws holding it together. It's been a long time since I see beech wood furniture. Anyways i'm going to take it apart reglue and refinish it since the hide glue has deteriorated. There's not one piece of veneer on this table.

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

My gramma taught me to sew on a treadle, way back in 1965. Then I graduated to the electric machines. Mom had a Kenmore with cams for different stitches. Now I have 2 120-2 Singer machines. And all of the attachments.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That is way cool!

 

[sumi]

Oh wow! My mom had one of those manual sewing machines years ago, I loved it. It belonged to my gran before. I occasionally see ones like yours in antique shops, they really are something special