Originally Posted by
yvomcpherson
I have a white rotary fr 359884. Trying to figure out the age of it
Welcome. It can be very difficult to determine how old some of these machines are.. Are there any patent dates on the plates near the needle? There have been some people that have gathered information from a variety of sources, including paperwork that came with the machine.
From my understanding, the "
Family
Rotary" model of White sewing machines were produced from sometime in the 1890s to the early 1920s.
After looking at
http://www.treadleon.net/WhiteSM/whites.html I'm wondering if there are six or seven digits on your machine. It looks like some of the six digits are out of sequence.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.