Originally Posted by
SteveH
First, congratulations on getting such a unique, complete beautiful machine. That is really super fantastic.
As you well know, there aren't many images of the "letter "a"" machine and particularly one like yours and
threaded. The couple that I have seen, look to have the thread from the spool go higher than yours is threaded. That is just a guess/impression that I have gotten.
I don't know if these links will work. I have been using a few different computers and think I'm searching for the same thing and keep getting different results.
try
http://catalog.mwa.org/index.html then quick search for "I M Singer" without quotes
http://catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/search?...ype=2&sk=en_US
Numbers 3 & 4
I.M. Singer & Co.
Letter "A" family sewing machine, with all the new improvements, is the best and cheapest family sewing machine in the world.
Publication date: 1859-1865
Call Number: Backlog 19P 3415
available, Stacks
4
Book Icon
I.M. Singer & Co.
Letter "A" family sewing machine, with all the new improvements, is the best and cheapest family sewing machine in the world.
Publication date: 1859-1865
Call Number: Trade Cats. Sing
available, Stacks
I also searched by name but had to jump through some hoops, but basically came up with same, but the link didn't work when I tried that. I've also done some searches site specific and didn't get the same results.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/singer...e/oclc/8657263
http://www.worldcat.org/title/letter...oclc/855827946
http://www.worldcat.org/title/letter...oclc/950928848
A couple of patents that might have some similarities
https://www.google.com/patents/US13687
https://www.google.com/patents/US34906
Again, congrats and enjoy.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.