Mrs. Finch, I want to go shopping with you, but I am in No California! Wow, great job re-placing what was missing from thrift stores, but what about the machine that was in the cabinet you put Stitchy in? I love hearing the stories where someone 'completed' a machine using other machine parts, but I always wonder about the donor machines.

Mark, I have never seen a White like that one - really awesome looking machine.

Nancy

Thank you, Nancy.

Mark,

These are really neat machines, but the threading is not intuitive at all. The threading on my 659 gave me fits when I first got it home. BUT I won that one and it sews very well now.

Cathy

Hi all! Just bought this Monarch the other day, without knowing much about it. Thanks to your thread here and the Sew-Classic article and manual download, I know so much now!

I honestly just wanted it for decoration, and thought that if it worked, then that is a bonus. Well, she does work! I have some things to sort out with the presser foot pressure. I need to get a replacement spool pin (though a chopstick works well in a pinch - ha!).

Don't you just love the color?! It's like a seafoam green in real life...

It does look like your pressure foot knob at the top is messed up. Some of them pop up and you just pop it back down. That one looks like someone messed with it. Be very careful - that has a spring in there and when you let that nut go it may throw the pressure foot rod into the ceiling or hit you in the eye.

Are there some stampings on the bottom of that machine? Did you get the pressure foot pressure knob fixed? I love that color!

Just rescued this Montgomery Ward this morning. There was a 552 New Home too rusted to hope and a brown crinkle finish Domestic. They were getting ready to spray paint them some neon colors like the ones already on the shelf, even the bobbin case in place! Its all turning now and the electric will have to wait. The bobbin case from my 1941 Singer fits it. I have more than one foot pedal with the little plug in box so will test the motor soon.

Can you see the little four leaf clovers on the faceplate? They are on the round light cover too.

That MW clone is WONDERFUL - you will love it. Mine was made by Happy so I called it Happy Go Lucky...

Once I read a few pages back, I find a couple of people do have the 'clover' machine. The serial number is H259511. Can you compare your numbers so I can get an idea of the year? I'm guessing 1949. Hope to get her sewing soon. Yours are so pretty and clean.

My serial number is H610274, but that won't help you much with the year as I have no idea of the age of this one. Mine is in showroom condition except for a few minor pin scratches on the bed. The case does need recovering or the green cover glued back down. It sews well. For some reason it is my HST machine.