Rosie99 if only you were closer.
Macybaby there's a big difference between your collecting and mine. You actually have a set purpose in acquiring your machines and you're taking the expensive and necessary steps to house them correctly where you can display them.
Your method of collecting machines of a certain vintage and with certain features like shuttle type is a great model to follow, that or Steve's methods where he collects only earlier machines.
I would like to say the same for me but honestly I get them because I like them and haven't been too concerned about sticking within a certain time period though I am getting more interested in early electric machines and machines that clearly show the design evolution of modern sewing machines. I just need to determine which ones are the best examples and go after them.
Rodney