Hi, have you searched images for "vintage viking sewing machine" and found anything that looks similar? A picture might help, besides we like seeing pictures.
Evidently there might be some machines that have "Viking" on them that aren't made in Sweden. Besides Japan by way of Canada, as mentioned at
https://sewing.patternreview.com/Sew...ns/topic/24474 , from my understanding some could be from South Africa. The current link to the yahoo group that is also mentioned in that thread is
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...espre1980/info
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.