Welcome, catleugh. The Frister and Rossmann machines were transverse shuttle machines as shown at
http://needlebar.org/main/survresult...ann/index.html Your machine is a vibrating shuttle machine. Needlebar
used to have a picture gallery that was a good resource to peruse to see many decals and badges for sewing machines.
Actually, the brass badge might be helpful to identify the manufacturer. It seems like I have seen that badge before, but don't remember which company it belongs to. Maybe a better picture of the badge would help someone else identify your machine.
I'm pretty sure that it is a European manufacturer as those had a stitch length regulator that has a lever and lines/numbers to indicate the stitch length. In the US, the stitch length was usually adjusted by turning a knob. Some of them did have something that would move up and down, but the early ones didn't have numbers associated with them.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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