Originally Posted by twinkie
I am going to try to post pictures of our oldest machine. (We have 38). It is an 1852 Grover and Baker treadle with a coffin lid. It has a beautiful Walnut cabinet and the machine moves freely. It is going to have to be cleaned up and "polished". It has been in a storage unit for 6 years. The only thing we can see that it needs is "beautification and some TLC".
Oh man that looks like the one I missed out on at a auction not to long before I got sick. Yeah I would be so proud to own that machine and if you cold find the model just before that one you would have a treadle with the band wheel facing the other way. That was some really neat engineering involved in that machine and they were of super high quality!!
Billy