$50 Flea Market Find - Willcox & Gibbs industrial
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$50 Flea Market Find - Willcox & Gibbs industrial
Gotta love the strange little things you can find at a Swap meet...
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This machine dates to about 1900
It is on a "homemade" iron stand with a feed ramp, a front grab handle, and rollers on the bottom.
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]535914[/ATTACH]
NOTE: the hand wheel is mounted to a piece of angle iron as is the "spool pin" (actually a bolt through another piece of angle iron)
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]535913[/ATTACH]
This machine dates to about 1900
It is on a "homemade" iron stand with a feed ramp, a front grab handle, and rollers on the bottom.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]535916[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]535914[/ATTACH]
NOTE: the hand wheel is mounted to a piece of angle iron as is the "spool pin" (actually a bolt through another piece of angle iron)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]535915[/ATTACH]
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Hey SteveH, Those last two posts have the photos in an attachment but I do not get the photos when I click on them. Hope you can put them in another way because it is an interesting machine and I'll bet it is even prettier cleaned up.
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It seems that the intent was to have the material being sewed stationary and the machine would move along as it was hand cranked. Can;t think of any other reason for the rollers on the bottom.
I am saving the odd iron contraption, but returning this machine to it's standard mounted to a board, with a normal hand wheel support.
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