I finished the base for my machine. Here are a couple of pics.
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The treadle on my Politype is a bit different from the one that SteveH has. Here is a pic of that.
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Mine does NOT have the U.S. distributor cast in (Emily James of New York). The area where that would be is just blank.
The little drawer that came with my machine is certainly NOT original. In fact, looking inside the drawer there is printing where it's obvious someone made the drawer from wood that came from a vegetable crate.
OK - that was the easy part, now onto the sewing machine restoration. But first, I'm going to order the belt kit.