Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Billy, what a great idea. I will be looking forward to this shop each morning. I drink tea though.
I will try to post pictures later today. My sweet hubby drove me 3.5 hours north of our place to purchase a Featherweight. We went back 2 days later to get some specialty wood at the same home and I purchased 2 handcranks. One is a Jones Hand Machine as presented to HRH the Princess of Whales and the other is a Collier's No. 4. I found quite a bit of history on the Jones but am having trouble locating info on the Collier's. Found info on the Collier's No. 3. I just want more and haven't figured out exactly where else to go.
Try this link out, it is to the Smithsonian website just for sewing machines. They have a lot of factory documents, memos, advertisements, and manuals.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...wing-Machines/
I will look around and see what I can come up with but it sounds like you have a great hubby and some wonderful machines!
Billy