Originally Posted by
Rodney
If it's a coffin top most likely it will be pre-1900 -unless you get lucky and get a combination 128 where the bentwood case sits inside the treadle base. I think Singer was making their treadle bases with the machines dropping inside by the 1890s.
Rodney
My Jones machine is a coffin top and I think but don't recall for sure that it dates to around 1920. I've seen pics of many different machines in coffin top cabinets but there you go, have no idea whether the machines were original to the base or not.
Rodney I have one of those little cabinets that you set a portable case into, but it's not a treadle one. I was going to bring it to our get together that was canceled and I'll bring it when we re-schedule.
Cari