Old 06-28-2011, 01:31 PM
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Great to see another Serata!

The winner of the quiz on the Mystery Vintage Machine is Vintagemotif, who battled her way to the answer.

So far it's been all German machines from me. Now I can put the flags out for a machine made in England, hurrah hurrah, the Vickers Modele de Luxe, made by the company that built the Spitfire. The machine was largely copied from a Frister and Rossmann vibrating shuttle, so you can sew in reverse if you ever start to forget that the German designs had the edge over Singer. There's a very interesting history of Vickers machines on the Sewalot website.

The machine is probably 1920s, but I haven't yet found anywhere I can check the serial number.

Nice little black leather rings on the spool pins - I think they must be original
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Nice patriotic badge
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This end of the machine looks totally German
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