I think that the history of our vintage machines is so interesting and your's is espicially so. What a tribute to your parents. I found the original sale slip for the Morse I got last week with the case. The people that bought it went to DesMoines---about 90 miles from their home and paid $179.00 total for the machine in 1955. They put down $40 and traded in the old machine-----That was a lot of money then, and how hard they must have worked to pay the rest off. No wonder they took such good care of their machines.