Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
I think that may be a Gritzner Keiser machine, it sure looks like the GK built Kenmores. That little lever is probably the feed drop. Great find!
I'm SO confused - why does it say "Domestic Imperial" etc on it then? Though I agree; it looks remarkably like the Kenmores, Pfaffs and Whites that GK apparently built (so sayeth historian Google). Do you know how I'd go about recognizing the proper cam set?
I suspected the lever was the feed dog control, and that's what a different site said too. I'd tried, and it didn't seem to work. I'll have to revisit that with more experimenting.
Also, I was mistaken in the original post. It doesn't say "Made in Germany;" it says "Made in
Western-Germany." Which my husband the history teacher says dates it to between post-WWII (duh!) and the early 50's. Because apparently it was the early 50s when the Germans gave up hope of eventually reuniting the country and started using the formal country name of
West Germany.