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Old 11-03-2014, 04:22 PM
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Based on the top tension design, that one is a New Home.

So far, the Davis Treadles I've seen all have the belt on the outside of the flywheel. And the VS all have a square needle plate (this one is round). However Davis is not the only company with those two features . . . so having them does not prove it's Davis, but not having them kind of takes Davis out of the running.

Rodney, back in the early 1900's Boye Needle Company researched and came up with 12 different shuttle designs to meet most of the shuttle demand of the time.

And it's not all of them, just the most common.

They numbered them and the needles for each machine, and though there are few extra needles between some shuttle numbers, it's basically Odd for Shuttle and Even for needle. Note, very early sets have some numbers switched, this is the later (and more common) numbering. Be careful when buying by "number".

This is by MFG, not badged name.

1. Household
3. New Home
5. Standard
7. Domestic (before owned by White)
9. Davis
11. White (with pin)
13. National, Foley & Williams
15. Singer & Free
17. Demorest
19. New Royal (mfg by Free, but a very different made machine)
both 20 and 21 are needles
22. Eldredge (pre National)
25. Florence (new company, not the original "Florence")

I have a machine for each one except #22.

This is why I spent so much time looking at pictures and figuring out identifying differences. So many don't have the Mfg name them, so when I saw a machine I wasn't sure of, I'd spend a lot of time figuring it out.

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