Originally Posted by
LenaDale
Janey & John,
I found an auction where someone posted a brochure for sale for a very similar "New Jewel" sewing machine, this was made by Chicago Scale Company, but at this point that is all I know about this machine.
Almost from the time sewing machines started being mass produced, they would be sold to different companies such as Sears, but Sears did not manufacture the machine. Sears could put another name on the machine and did, such as Franklin, Kenmore and other names. You will find that many times local hardware or department stores will sell things that they did not manufacture themselves. Probably, because they buy in bulk, they can have any name they want put on the article. I read an article once that used the term "stenciled" for said sewing machines. Today's terminology is "badged" for machines that have a name on them other than who actually made the machine.
So, I'm going to say that it more than likely it was made by National.
ETA looks like you figured this out while I was typing.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.