Welcome MissTerri. You have what is considered a badged machine. Montgomery Wards was able to buy machines made by National. I believe you have what would be considered a model named VB-TT Type 3 as seen at
http://needlebar.org/nbwiki/index.ph...uttle_Machines
National machines are hard to date, but, if I were to guess, I would probably around 1900 give or take a few years.
I'm not sure if this machine would have the hand wheel go in the opposite direction than modern machines.
I'm fairly certain that your machine would use a 20x1 needle. Some have used a modern 15x1 needle by dropping it a bit.
To post pictures on QB they need to be smaller than 2MB - my stock post about posting pictures:
We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a
file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "
Upload" button.
I have found that only the big red "Reply" button or "Quote" work to give me the paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...p-location.jpg
Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of
quilt block ID?
Or simply - Make sure pictures are smaller than 2MB
Click on red "Reply" button
Click on the paper clip icon
Click browse - choose picture/s. (only 5 allowed per post)
Once they show up as being loaded, Scroll over to the right side and click on "Upload"
After the pictures show up as being attached, you can close that window and go back to the screen to finish posting your post.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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