OK I consider myself fairly well educated on vintage machines. .But your responses aren't unusual. Many manufacturers would sell batches of sewing machine to anyone with enough money and they could put their own name on the machine. They are called badged machines .and they turn up with a fair amount of regularity. I know other hardware stores who put their names on. If you could put a picture ( make it under 2mb) it would help us further. We could maybe tell you who actually made it, How do you happen to have a date?