To add to the above posting, I went on ismacs and found out that mine is a Model 28, Dec 30, 1910, and made in St Johns, Canada. And after looking at it pretty carefully, I need to do the cleaning thing to it that this posting started out with originally--plus it smells--my whole house is smelling like an old country house that hasn't been open for a long, long time. The machine is out in my sun room, and I never knew it smelled so bad, I guess because we haven't even opened it up since we brought it in during the summer when the smell wouldn't have been so confined.
Maybe I'll just give up my sewing forum today and go out to my sewing room and finish a quilt that needs to be mailed off to a sewing customer.