Rose_P

This is not a machine that I've found, but just an ad from 1890 that I came across in a Des Moines, IA city directory while looking for something else. It caught my eye because I've never heard of a Tibbles. I searched this board and found no matches for the name. Then I tried Google and found some hits related to a patent, and a 1933 Worlds Fair ribbon said to be sewn on one, but not one photo of a machine. I guess it would be rare to have one turn up, but based on the ad, I would certainly have been a potential customer. What was an "elastic lock stitch"? I couldn't get the whole page on my screen, but you can see where they overlapped. Too bad they chose to show it without even a hint of what the machine head may have looked like.