Welcome to Quilting Board. It warms my heart when inherited machines get used for their original purpose. Unfortunately, dating some of these old machines as records were not kept or archived. I did find an ad in a 1899 "
Sewing Machine Times" that lists Paragon as being a machine, but didn't have a picture. I also saw one from 1902. Most of the ads for Standard up to 1911 referred to the Rotary machines. If there are any patent dates on the machine, you know that your machine can not be any older than that.
I believe you can find a manual at
https://groups.io/g/LancasterCountyT...ardParagon.pdf
We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a
file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "
Upload" button.
I have found that only the big
red "Reply" button or "
Quote" work to give me the
paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...p-location.jpg
Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of
quilt block ID?
Another way to post pictures can be found at
2021/2022, 2.5” Birthday Swap
And how to use an ipad to post pictures can be found at
Uploading photos
Or simply - Make sure pictures are
smaller than 2MB
Click on red "
Reply" button
Click on the
paper clip icon
Click browse - choose picture/s. (only 5 allowed per post)
Once they show up as being loaded,
Scroll over to the right side and click on "Upload"
After the pictures show up as being attached, you can close that window and go back to the screen to finish posting your post.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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