Wheeler & Wilson #8 - 4 digit serial number and Oops box....

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12-07-2015, 10:54 AM

#31

Manalto

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Originally Posted by SteveH

(Note: this was originally posted in December of LAST year... hehe)

I think we should revisit your No. 8 every year about this time!

12-07-2015, 04:26 PM

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Tink's Mom

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That machine is just beautiful!

12-08-2015, 02:43 AM

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OurWorkbench

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I had learned about the "oops" box here and thought it would be a good place to ask about the stamp on the bottom. I'm wondering if it was associated with a particular machine and/or time period. I know the boxes are often separated from the machines, as mine is. I suppose, too, that like blackside singer attachments and parts could have gone with different machines over a number of years.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

12-08-2015, 02:50 PM

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sewbeadit

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Love that machine, I haven't seen one is such great condition before. I have an oops box but by looking really closely at it it looks like the grain of the wood makes it look backwards. I don't have any stamps underneath on my box.

12-08-2015, 06:57 PM

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SteveH

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Originally Posted by OurWorkbench

I was wondering if there was a number "stamped" on the bottom. This is on an "oops" box.

I just checked my oops box and my plain top and neither of them have anything stamped into to bottom.

12-09-2015, 03:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveH

I just checked my oops box and my plain top and neither of them have anything stamped into to bottom.

Thanks for checking. Now I can retire -- it must be an extremely rare "oops" box with the inspector's number stamped on it. Drat, probably NOT. Nice thought while it lasted.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.