Originally Posted by Charlee
According to Needlebar, the machine was made between 1958 and 1962, in Japan by a company named Maruzen who became Jaguar, for Sears. :)
I have a little trouble navigating Needlebar sometimes, but if I poke around enough, the information is usually there! :)
Yes lots of good info on the Needlebar!! I am heading up the research for the Japanese 15 and the JA and JC numbers and trying to be able to date the machines for the NB right now.
The years of your machine can go from 1957 to 1980 and I can tell you for a fact that is a Jaguar built machine. The styling cues are there for it. And it looks like it was one of the "Transition Machines" that was being manufactured when the company was swapping owners.
My machine that I have is a Model 43 and its a 1963 model and the Sears logo is completely different than yours. I would be willing to guess by the logo it is some where in the 67-69 range on the year. Unfortunately Sears records do not go past the 158.500's so it is hard to date but you can use the Sears Catalogs to date it.
I will have the complete set of catalogs on my laptop in a few months dating from the mid teens to 2000. The local University is scanning them from microfiche to PDF and I am getting a complete set of the catalogs since I live in that library doing research on the Japanese industrial revolution of the sewing machine.
The NeedleBar has a machine just like it in the PL but it does not have much information about it.
Remember the Japanese machines research is really in its infancy and it could take several years before we can come close to knowing who what and where about the machines that they built.
But if I was you start looking at the sears catalogs between 66-69 and you might find it.
Billy