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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Here is it with my other two early Buttonholers (1900-1940)
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and from the underside
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here they are with their slide plates (don't have one for the middle one yet)
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