Did it again, with the help of DH. Went to the covered bridge festival in search of a treadle and came home with FOUR more machines, what we call adults as we also picked up three more (kids) children sewing machines.
First came across a Damascus, frozen to the hilt but when the guy said that he'd originally planned to paint it into a tractor, DH grabbed it. There are no #s, so no way of dating this one.
Second came the Sphinx in a case so the hunt was still on. Nov. 8, 1916
I felt we'd had enough, but oh no.......DH raised the bar, and jack pot!!
Two complete treadles and he had to have them both. One is a beautiful 'Free' machine, the other is another Red Eye, Oct. 29,1919. A little bit of cleaning and they're good to go, we think haven't given them any test drives but everything moves rather freely.
He wants me to let you all know the total # of machines stands at 18(adults) and 5 babies.
Charlee....help......he's dragging me back into that deeper water........