I finally have an early Davis Low Arm!!!
A HUGE thank you goes out to Cathy(Macybaby) and her husband!
They found this, bought this, somehow had the willpower to not clean this, packed this, and shipped this to me safe and sound. (I am using the treadle crate as a desk now!!!! (joking, but dang it was solid....))
As I mentioned in a previous post, the good pics from last night are on Heather phone (mine ran out 5 minutes into the process) so more and better pics will be posted later.
For now, let me present a very early walking foot sewing machine...
As arrived, dirty but with a LOT of promise!!!
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Here is the biggest foot pedal in my collection. (you can see the previous record holder (Politype) in the background...)
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Here she is clean but with poor lighting.
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Stiff as a board, but with a baptism in TriFlow, viola! She spins freely.
I can't wait to get the pics from Heather including pics of the on leg, gear driven bobbin winder.