Saved this Wilson - with the help of a QB buddy
well this Sunday was not quite what I planned.
I planned a casual day of playing catch up on Sunday with house and collection stuff as well as working on the stuff for the new VSS website...
But NOOOOOO... Instead I opened an email from Mrs.SewNSew and my whole day shifted.
She send me an email with a question or two and then at the bottom of the email casually asked if I had seen a certain ad...
No, I had not. The ad was for a pair of "old sewing machines" $75 each. The first was a White Embossed electric in a parlor cabinet. Cool, but not in my are of interest as it is WAY too new for me.
The second was a machine that I immediately recognized. I should recognize it because I have been in negotiation with a gentleman in Utah who has one in a standard treadle cabinet and was asking $600 for it.......
Of course his was clean. Hmmm $75 for a Filthy machine, or $600 + 2 day road trip for one already cleaned... Hard choice it was not.
So I drove 45 minutes and saw this. (These pics were taken after I brought it home)
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Yep, that is an 1872 Wilson (NOT Wheeler & Wilson) Folding top treadle!!!!!
Last edited by SteveH; 01-12-2015 at 09:38 AM.