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Old 08-15-2013, 02:52 PM
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SteveH
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Default VERY Early Peerless buttonholer

This unit dates to around 1887-1888

It is for the Singer VS2.

As I understand it, this was the first successful buttonholer for Singers.

Inboard
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]430446[/ATTACH]

Here is it with my other two early Buttonholers (1900-1940)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]430447[/ATTACH]

and from the underside
[ATTACH=CONFIG]430448[/ATTACH]

here they are with their slide plates (don't have one for the middle one yet)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]430449[/ATTACH]
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