Originally Posted by retired2pa
I wanted to share a picture of my Mercury machine. I'm not sure what year it is but she's a pretty machine and runs great. I bought her for $20 at my local thrift shop. She was upstairs in their attic and had been stored up there along with some other industrial machines that were used for reupholstering. It had the original case is excellent condition and the machine wasn't even dusty when we opened it up :)
I am really impressed with this machine! I have not run across a Japanese 15 like this one so could you post some photos of the bottom and if it has any numbers or markings including the serial number could you post those also? I know the brand name and this machine is from the 50's but I have never seen one like this one before.
This was a very nice score indeed!!
Oh before I forget if you could take the face plate off of the machine (it has the tension assembly on it) and look behind it and see if there are any markings or a trademark on it. if there is you think you can take a photo of it also?
Billy