I couldn't help it, bought this beautiful machine on Ebay. It works very smoothly, but came with only one needle, which is very long and thin, so I sure would like to have more. The ISMACS needle list indicates a European size 439 is required, but I can find no information on that size of needle.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310443131912...84.m1497.l2649