Dave
Courtesy of Dave King
Contents
- 1 Whight & Mann Excelsior Advertisement
- 2 Willcox & Gibbs Spool Pin Pictures
- 3 Allbook & Hashfield
- 4 American ?
- 5 Singer Oriental Cabinet
- 6 Jonas Brook & Brothers Thread
- 7 Advertisements from the 1870s
- 8 Holland Manufacturing Co. Thread Re-spooler
- 9 1877 Willcox & Gibbs Automatic 'True Lockstitch' Machine Manual
- 10 Unidentified Monopod Machine
- 11 Federation Baby
- 12 Unknown Pawfoot Machine
- 13 Göricke Jdeal
- 14 Grover & Baker
- 15 Singer 20
- 16 Singer 30 Manual
- 17 13 x 1 Needles
- 18 Wilson Improved Buckeye
- 19 Mystery Iron-based Machine
- 20 Machines from an 1862 Exhibition
- 21 Boye Chart 1906
- 22 National Miniature Machine
- 23 Bacon 'The Little Belle'
- 24 Tabitha
- 25 Jones Model D
- 26 Müller 10 Advertisement
- 27 La Parisienne (Marc Klotz)
- 28 Newton Wilson 'Dorcas' Chainstitcher
- 29 Sewing by Steam
- 30 Joseph Harris Royal Challenge
- 31 Mystery Singer Attachment
- 32 27K Floral Faceplate
- 33 Bradbury Poster
- 34 Fake Singer for ID
- 35 1868 Sewing Machine Advertisements
- 36 Florence
- 37 Thomas Ward, King's Lynn, Norfolk
- 38 1862 Alexander McKenzie Advertisement
- 39 Mundlos ZZ/A Robot
- 40 Willcox & Gibbs System Machine
- 41 Singer Square Cover
- 42 Whight & Mann Design Patent 1870
- 43 Seidel & Naumann Typwriter
- 44 Pfaff 11
- 45 Magnet
- 46 Another Odd Machine
- 47 Guelph Advertisement
- 48 Salter Ideal
- 49 Princess of Wales
- 50 Early Singer Industrial
- 51 Early Willcox & Gibbs
- 52 Hulse, Pringle and Woodhead 'Fearnaught'
- 53 Whight & Mann (Mr Santley?)
- 54 Frobana
- 55 Early Singer 29K
- 56 Fur Stitcher
- 57 Baby Brother
- 58 Kruse & Murphy
- 59 Singer 12 Accessory Kit
- 60 Kimball & Morton
- 61 Unknown Hand Machine
- 62 Frister & Rossmann Willcox & Gibbs Automatic Type Chainstitcher
- 63 North American Manufacturing Co. 1866 Share Certificate
- 64 Biesolt Locke Meisson Patent
- 65 Bradbury No.6
- 66 Britannia (Wheeler & Wilson 1867 Patent)
- 67 Whight & Mann Prima Donna
- 68 Singer Model 12K Treadle
- 69 Bremer & Bruckmann
- 70 American #8
- 71 New Home vs Singer Vibrating Shuttles
- 72 Gritzner-Kayser Leather Stitcher
- 73 Howe Treadle
- 74 Early Model 12 New Family Hand MOP
- 75 Britannia 'Tom Hood' Machines
- 76 Singer 28K Combination Table
- 77 From the Whight & Mann Catalogue c.1870-74
- 78 Singer 'Wraparound' Crank Mechanism
- 79 Davis Vertical Feed Treadle
- 80 TS Badged for Whight & Mann - Gritzner?
- 81 Stitch Types
- 82 Willcox & Gibbs Combination
- 83 Samuel Smith Tombstone
- 84 Singer 28 with Spectacular Decals
- 85 Whight & Mann Alberta (Christchurch Museum)
- 86 Whight & Mann Excelsior
- 87 Wheeler & Wilson Attachments
- 88 Dolly Varden
- 89 Royal SMC
- 90 Wanzer A
- 91 Müller Number 2 Toy Machine
- 92 Singer 12 with Mother of Pearl
- 93 Seamstress
- 94 Bradbury B2 Rotary
- 95 Whight & Mann Alberta
- 96 Vera Originale
- 97 Ward's Arm & Platform
- 98 US-made/UK-made Singer 28 comparison
Whight & Mann Excelsior Advertisement
Willcox & Gibbs Spool Pin Pictures
Allbook & Hashfield
American ?
Singer Oriental Cabinet
Jonas Brook & Brothers Thread
Advertisements from the 1870s
Holland Manufacturing Co. Thread Re-spooler
1877 Willcox & Gibbs Automatic 'True Lockstitch' Machine Manual
Unidentified Monopod Machine
Federation Baby
Unknown Pawfoot Machine
Serial # ? 447 ?
Göricke Jdeal
Serial #s 51413 or 97966
Grover & Baker
Serial #348926 (1871 ref.Cooper)
Singer 20
Singer 30 Manual
13 x 1 Needles
Wilson Improved Buckeye
Mystery Iron-based Machine
Serial # 4(1?)238
Machines from an 1862 Exhibition
Ferrabee's Machine H.
Guiness's Machine
Bigelow's Boot Stitcher
Arnold & Price’s gathering attachment
H. FERRABEE
A machine, yclept the “British Sewing Machine,” although owing its origin to American soil, is exhibited by H. Ferrabee of High Holborn. It is a lock stitch machine, provided with a stationary discoidal thread case below the cloth plate, and has a peculiar rotatory hook working in conjunction with an eye pointed needle for the purpose of catching the loop of the needle, and passing it round the thread case, so as to interlock the thread contained in the thread case with the loop of the needle thread, thereby producing the lock or shuttle stitch previously referred to. Fig. 462 represents a side elevation of this machine in working order. The needle carries its thread through the fabric it the form of a loop, and by rising slightly opens that loop, so as to enable the nose of a hook to enter therein with greater certainty. This hook forms the upper extremity of a lever, which is centred upon a crank pin in a disc, on the end of the main driving shaft, its lower end being jointed to a link, the backward extremity of which turns on a stud pin fixed to the underside of the bed plate. On rotating the crank, the hook describes an elliptical course round the thread case, carrying with it the loop of the under thread, and after passing it under the thread case releases it as it rises again on the opposite side.
GUINNESS & CO.
A shuttle machine (Fig. 463), embracing several peculiarities, is exhibited by Guinness &Co. in the Processes Court. We have seen several specimens of Ornamental Stitching…..(Missing section)….ordinary stitching for manufacturing or for family purposes. A single needle, or two or more needles, are employed, according to the kind of stitch to be produced. These needles are straight, but in place of being attached to a vertical slide immediately over the fabric, they are attached to the end of an arm, which projects horizontally from a slide working vertically along parallel guide rods at the rear end of the fixed bracket arm; hence the slide, which requires to be lubricated, is situate some distance from the fabric, and the risk of injury to the latter by the dropping of oil thereon is obviated.
There is a peculiarity also in the form of the shuttle, the nose of which is made above the longitudinal axis of the shuttle, and instead of the descent of the needle being regulated so that its eye will pass below the bottom of the shuttle, as is the case in ordinary shuttle machines, the eye of the needle descends only so far as to clear the underside of the nose of the shuttle. This arrangement affords the facility of using shuttles of various sizes in one machine, without altering the stroke of the needle, provided the points of the shuttles are all at the same height. It is important that there should be as little tension as possible upon the needle thread whilst the shuttle is passing through and expanding the loop; and to obtain this the thread, as it passes from the bobbin, is lead off in a direction away from the needle, and after passing through a suitable tension apparatus, it traverses an eye in the end of a vibrating lever, whence it passes back to the eye of the needle. When the thread is required to be slack for the passage of the shuttle through the loop, the lever is acted upon by a pin on the slide, and thrown forward so as to give out a sufficient amount of slack thread to form a loop through which the shuttle can pass easily. Another pin on the same slide, moves the lever back again to its original position when the slack thread is taken up, the stitch tightened, and as much thread as was required in forming the stitch drawn off of the bobbin. In place of the shuttle traversing an ordinary groove or shuttle race, it is carried in a holder which slides to and fro along a horizontal guide bar spindle, passing through a hole in the shuttle holder. The material is traversed stitch by stitch under the needle by an ingenious modification of what is known as the “four motion feed,” which we refer to more particularly hereafter, under our notice of the Grover and Baker machines exhibited by Mr. Newton Wilson. The feeding surface when sewing very fine fabrics is made smooth in place of serrated, as it is found that a smooth surface will give the necessary hold upon the fabric to propel it forward, whilst it is not so liable to injure the material as when it is formed with teeth or serrations upon its surface. This feeding surface is also so shaped as to operate both in front of and behind the needle, or, in other words, in a line with the stitches, so that they are always held firmly between the feeding surface and the presser foot, which is a most important requisite when operating upon net or other fabrics of an extremely light and open texture. The feeding surface is formed on the upper end of a bar, having a vertical slot made in it, through which an adjustable pin carried by the bed plate or table of the machine passes. The lower end of the bar is connected to a revolving crank pin, on the end of the main shaft of the machine. When this crank pin is rotated, the upper end or feeding surface rises and falls to an extent equal to the throw of the crank, and also moves laterally, which lateral motion imparts the desired feed to the material. This feed is regulated or varied so as to produce long or short stitches by altering the position of the pin forming the fulcrum or working centre of the slotted feed bar. Thus on lowering the pin in the slot the lateral throw of the feeding surface will be increased, and the contrary effect is of course produced by raising the pin. The whole of the working parts of this machine are actuated by cranks, in lieu of cams. The slide for working the needle is connected by a short link to a crank pin on the side of the driving pulley. The shuttle driver is also traversed to and fro by another crank and link at the front end of the driving shaft, and the feed bar is actuated by a third crank or eccentric pin on the extreme end of the driving shaft, as already described. This is an excellent arrangement, avoiding the additional friction which always accompanies the use of cams, and greatly simplifying the construction of the machine. Another advantage which arises from this mode of actuating the parts, and which should not be overlooked, is the power of working the machine equally well in either direction, the fabric being fed either from or towards the operator at will, by simply reversing the motion of the machine. When two needles are used in this machine they are placed parallel with each other, and in a line with the direction in which the work is propelled; consequently they only produce one line of stitches. Each needle is supplied with a separate thread of its own, and the shuttle with its filling thread passes through both the loops of the needle thread at one traverse, the result being a three thread lock stitch possessing great elasticity. A great variety of stitches, one of which is shown at fig.465, can be produced using two needles and a shuttle, by simply varying the feed of the cloth, a property which is, we believe, peculiar to this machine. Guinness and Company have obtained “honourable mention” for their sewing machines, and are the only British exhibitors who have been noticed by the jury in their awards. These machines are undoubtedly worthy of distinction, and we a re glad they have not been passed over; but the awards generally in this section have been so unaccountably made that they are utterly useless as real criterions of merit.
Boye Chart 1906
National Miniature Machine
Bacon 'The Little Belle'
Serial #1423
Tabitha
Jones Model D
Serial #180
Müller 10 Advertisement
La Parisienne (Marc Klotz)
Serial #4716
Newton Wilson 'Dorcas' Chainstitcher
Sewing by Steam
Joseph Harris Royal Challenge
Bull Street, Birmingham
Serial #140717
Mystery Singer Attachment
27K Floral Faceplate
Bradbury Poster
Fake Singer for ID
Serial #PB012806
1868 Sewing Machine Advertisements
Florence
"Before" Pictures
Forum Discussion Topic
After Cleaning
Thomas Ward, King's Lynn, Norfolk
From Harrod's Directory 1863
1862 Alexander McKenzie Advertisement
Mundlos ZZ/A Robot
Forum Discussion Topic
Willcox & Gibbs System Machine
Singer Square Cover
Whight & Mann Design Patent 1870
Seidel & Naumann Typwriter
Forum Discussion Topic
Pfaff 11
Serial #3027003 (1936)
Magnet
Another Odd Machine
Guelph Advertisement
Forum Discussion Topic
Salter Ideal
Princess of Wales
Serial #56877
Early Singer Industrial
Courtesy of Alan Blakeman, BBR Auctions
Early Willcox & Gibbs
Serial #206688 c.1872
Registration Diamond (October 1869)
Hulse, Pringle and Woodhead 'Fearnaught'
Whight & Mann (Mr Santley?)
Frobana
Serial #9140
Early Singer 29K
Serial #6538810 / 127810
Fur Stitcher
Baby Brother
Kruse & Murphy
Serial #162172
Singer 12 Accessory Kit
Kimball & Morton
Serial #74329
Unknown Hand Machine
Frister & Rossmann Willcox & Gibbs Automatic Type Chainstitcher
Serial #4479
Certificate showing image of early machine
Picture of embossed machine from the rear of the certificate
Biesolt Locke Meisson Patent
Serial #51512
Bradbury No.6
Serial #13565 (?)
Britannia (Wheeler & Wilson 1867 Patent)
Whight & Mann Prima Donna
Pictures courtesy of Clevedon Salerooms Ltd
Serial# 6886
Singer Model 12K Treadle
Serial #3586057/695257 - 1879 Bridgeton, Scotland
Bremer & Bruckmann
Retailed by Leigh & Crawford, London
Forum Discussion Topic
Bremer & Bruckmann machine badged as "Swift"
American #8
New Home vs Singer Vibrating Shuttles
New Home shuttle in New Home machine
New Home Shuttle Arm - 7.5 inch radius (shallow arc)
New Home/Singer shuttle mismatch showing difference in radius
Singer shuttle in Singer machine
Singer/New Home shuttle mismatch
Singer Shuttle Arm - 2.5 inch radius (deep arc)
Gritzner-Kayser Leather Stitcher
Howe Treadle
Howe Hand Handle for comparison. Courtesy of Rijnko Fekkes
Early Model 12 New Family Hand MOP
Serial #816716/106916 - 1871
Britannia 'Tom Hood' Machines
Tom Hood Hand
Tom Hood Treadle
Singer 28K Combination Table
Serial #R292084
From the Whight & Mann Catalogue c.1870-74
Courtesy of the Fashion Museum, Bath and North East Somerset Council
Alberta
Holborn Express
The Princess
Thomas
Vegetable Slicer
Singer 'Wraparound' Crank Mechanism
Davis Vertical Feed Treadle
TS Badged for Whight & Mann - Gritzner?
Serial #408814
This has 'Prima Donna' on the arm. Is this example made by Gritzner?
Stitch Types
Willcox & Gibbs Combination
Serial #A288231 - 1876
Samuel Smith Tombstone
Singer 28 with Spectacular Decals
Serial #8614030, February 12, 1889
Whight & Mann Alberta (Christchurch Museum)
Whight & Mann Excelsior
Wheeler & Wilson Attachments
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Dolly Varden
Royal SMC
Serial #145136
Wanzer A
Müller Number 2 Toy Machine
Singer 12 with Mother of Pearl
Serial #5781738/1221938
Seamstress
Bradbury B2 Rotary
Whight & Mann Alberta
Progress Report
A few progress pics. The top is pretty much done, just stumped for some period looking carpet now!
The original carpet has large areas rotted away, the remains appear to be bands of three shades of green mottled (leopard skin like) then the same but brownish...
Vera Originale
Serial Number unknown
Which company made this Vera Originale? R. Lehnmann, previously known as Baach & Klie?? German Makers Lists
Principessa Jolanda was born June 1st 1901, married April 9th 1923 and died October 16th 1986. She looks too young to be 21 so perhaps the machine is about 1907 to 1910.
