I'll bet Sally's mother was upset when she scratched her name in the machine!!! I know I'd have been...... but now, I look at your machine and just smile! I can imagine the young Sally wanting to think that writing her name on the machine was a good idea. Probably she found s stray needle or pin and did it while momma was busy somewhere else. I'd leave the name in there too. It just makes the machine just so much more dear.