Lostn51

I'll be damned I got me a new assistant manager now!! Didnt know I needed one but I reckon you cant have to much help now can you. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Anyhoo I found a couple of advertisements for the New Homes in my stash of documents I have here in front of me. You can not believe the amount of documents that I have and they all need scanning into my computer. I have roughly 4GB of just sewing machine documents scanned and I am just starting. And the vast majority are from the early years during the "Sewing Machine Wars" which is my favorite time of the industrial revolution.

Thats kinda why I started this shop, hoping to help the folks that love this era and to get a group together for sharing of information.

It is really interesting the prices of the machines an the relationship to the cost of living. I know that a lot of you have the really fancy machines and you know that they are really expensive. Lord knows I am slowly finding out because I am buying a new Gammill Long arm with all the computer goodies to go with it. And then you toss in an embroidery machine and we just blew $25K. But at least my wife will be happy and I will be able to play with them too!! :D :D :D

Okay back on track........The prices really have not changed that much. Remember the sewing machine was only 30 years old when the automobile was invented and the average price of a Model T Ford was around $650 in the early teens. So it was pretty new technology at the time.

Here you go.......

Billy