Wow! You better keep him. We used to have a Singer treadle machine, but when I was in 7th grade, a traveling sewing machine salesman came by the house while I was at school and my Mom traded the treadle in on a new fangled sewing machine"her words".lol I was taking homemaking and she wanted me to have a new sewing machine. I almost died when I saw what she had done. She did it out of love for me but I would give just about anything to have my Grandmothers treadle machine back. Happy that you got one though.