Leon, are you reading this? What do you know about "Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle Company?" The reason I ask is because
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/american%20...ufacturers.htm says it closed in 1899?? Yet echannon's machine seems to be newer than that.
Welcome,
eshannon. It really pleases me when people appreciate an inherited machine and want to get it back to what they were meant to do. Usually, it doesn't take very much to do that.
FYI, LeonF is into old sewing machines
and old bicycles!
We like pictures!! Generally, they have to reduce them, before they can be posted. To insert a picture there is a "tree icon" about third from the left on the formatting bar above where you type.
I know hybearn8er's machine is a long shuttle machine. Since this is the only time MusicCOMom2 and cdewey5115
have posted and appear not to have signed on again. So don't know what their machines look like.
New Home was in Rockford, I think, beginning in 1932. Not that you need it, since you have the original paperwork, the dates of manufacture can be found at
https://www.janome.com/siteassets/su...anufacture.pdf Can you find a serial number? I'm thinking that it probably starts with letters. perhaps NH, ALB or NlB
For cleaning these vintage machines it is recommended to wipe it down with sewing machine oil and soft cloths or cotton balls. While you have the sewing machine oil out, oil the places it says to in the manual.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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