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Old 11-06-2018, 01:24 PM
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leonf
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Default hard life Singer 27

Iris and I went to Mississippi so we could see some of her family. We brought back a family treasure. a


VS Singer treadle [ATTACH=CONFIG]603613[/ATTACH]that her late husband's mom used in Honduras and other countries for a long time.Living away from roads meant that she had to make do a lot. We found three pumice stones in the drawers that she used for re-sharpening neeedles. 8 bobbins. Lots of rust down there. These are "before" pictures.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]603614[/ATTACH]

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