Originally Posted by dunster

I have no doubt this was written by a non-English speaker (not that it matters, just an observation and speculation that this is a paper written by a non-English speaker to improve his English and the research is highly suspect). This is the type of sentence I'm referring to: "Most of all, the Featherweight antique White sewing machine was very lightweight-it only weighed less than 20 pounds. You wouldn't have any problem keeping it away even at the top of the stairs. " Actually almost every paragraph in the article has some strange-sounding phrase, often referring to White producing antique machines: "Meanwhile, when the twentieth century was basically new, the company opted to release another antique White sewing machine." So if the writer is still learning English, it would be easy to get confused with white (a color) featherweights, vs. machines made by White.

However - I did find some places where people refer to their White 77 as a featherweight, and here is an article on converting the 77 to treadle, with pictures that look like the machine in your ebay listing: http://www.treadleon.net/whitesm/whi...ick77conv.html
Here are the pictures that refer to the 77 as a featherweight - http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...69279629Llmbrq

And here's an article that says the White 77 was designed to compete with the Singer 221 featherweight.
http://www.newenglandsimpleliving.co...itemodel77.htm

So much stuff available on the internet, don't know how much of it is accurate, I should get off the computer and start sewing...