Originally Posted by Crossstitcher
Nancy here is a picture of our Wheeler Wilson dated 1854 and we have a Wilcox Gibbs dated 1884. We also have a National dated 1869 and a Domestic fiddle base dated 1870-1880. Few others dated pre 1900's.
Trish, how in the world did you come across those really really old machines?
You have quite a collection. Very interesting machines, and look at the treadle -- two feet-- Geeze! Those are probably the ones I was talking about earlier that were hand fitted, filed, and don't have interchangeable parts. Very cool!
Nancy