Originally Posted by
JoeJr
Janey, this may surprise you but I did a little of my own research. Turns out Vandervoort's was a department store in the St Louis area, similar to my Famous Barr Special over here:
https://stlouis.craigslist.org/zip/d...287247436.html
I still don't know who made it, but will go with New Home, as I think this is an older cousin to the other machines I had to which I linked. I am basing this solely on the needles and bobbins used.
I think you meant
Famous Barr Special
I was just looking at
http://www.needlebar.org/nbwiki/inde...achine_Company and most of the pictures there are of VS machines, with a few for round bobbin machines but it did say "
"New Home" models include: AC," so I would tend to agree that it is a New Home AC model. There is a Serial Number list available for New Home machines at
https://www.janome.com/siteassets/su...anufacture.pdf ISMACS has a list, too, but if I remember correctly is not as complete as the Janome one. I think you will find the AC serial numbers were produced between 1934 and 1942.
Good find.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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