great machine.
I know White came to be in 1858 and made treadles til about 1920's. the electric sewing machine was invented in 1889 and there were treadles and electrics for a couple of decades at least after that. they quit making the black iron with ornate decals like these in the 1920's. this page has a phone # for White and you give them your machine's serial # and they'll tell you exactly how old it is. http://ismacs.net/faq.html#manufacture
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Sew-n-Sew
Does anyone out there know about OLD sewing machines? I just got my grandma's White Rotary treadle sewing machine. I have no idea when she got it or how old it is, or whether it still works. Who can I have look at it to help me out? She was born in the 1890s.
White Rotary Sewing Machine 1
[ATTACH=CONFIG]109835[/ATTACH]
White Rotary Sewing Machine 2
[ATTACH=CONFIG]109836[/ATTACH]
White Rotary Sewing Machine 3
[ATTACH=CONFIG]109837[/ATTACH]
Last edited by monapause; 10-18-2016 at 08:53 PM.