MFord

Very interesting and pretty! Nice to see antiques that do something, not just sit there looking pretty!

VintageSewing

Yes, thank you for sharing the instructions and your video. There's also a youtube video on the attachment and the person made their own spool holder too. It's rare to find the attachment with the spool holder. Only one of mine came with the original spool holder. Then I had a couple made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5R1BTobwg

foufymaus

That's really neat! Thanks for sharing.

GreyQ

That is fascinating!! You do find the coolest stuff and quite impressively, know what the heck it is!

SteveH

I'd love to see a couple of good pictures of the original so that I can make one that is more correctly shaped.

SteveH

I found an article in the Journal of Domestic Appliances May 1st 1885 (Vol 13) page 210
https://archive.org/stream/journalof...earch/peerless

"One of the chief and most useful accessories of the sewing machine that is now being offered to the sewing machine trade by the enterprising. Sackett Manufacturing Company, of Wallingford, Conn., is their new embroiderer, which has been named the Peerless, from the perfect confidence its owners and manufacturers have in its superiority to all other attachments of the same description, The "Peerless" is certainly an easy working, attractive and substantial embroiderer, manufactured altogether of steel and nickel plated. It will work equally well with silk, chenille, tinsel, or worsted. The embroiderer is now-a-days perhaps one of the most interesting attachments when well shown up to the female users of sewing machines who are as a general thing more or less interested in the fancy-work, now so universally popular, As will be seen by the company's advertisement in this number, the "Peerless" is made up and in stock for a number of leading sewing machines - - and will be adapted to any machine and run through to order by the machinery plant at Wallingford, in amounts of one gross, At an early day the "Peerless" will probably he manufactured for every machine extant"


Here is a listing of the editions they have on public file
https://archive.org/search.php?query...iatype%3Atexts

VintageSewing

Steve, Just read your post. I'll take pics and try to post them by the weekend.

SteveH

Awesome thanks!

manicmike

Hey Steve, my VS2 is Rosie and has the same decals as yours :-D

Yes you do find the coolest things.

Tink's Mom

That is so cool! I love that you are able to find all these things...I can't wait till you demo it in action.