For giggles, continued, I saw it on...
02-25-2015, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by SteveH
cool, this is the first "1889" sewing machine that "I" have ever seen with plastic parts....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-sing...item3aa3b72206
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-sing...item3aa3b72206
02-25-2015, 09:41 AM
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02-25-2015, 09:58 AM
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https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/app/4906405129.html
^^^ first classy re-use of treadle irons in handmade sewing cabinet ^^^
^^^ first classy re-use of treadle irons in handmade sewing cabinet ^^^
02-25-2015, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Macybaby
I think mine is about the same size as that one. It really is nice having something to put in that spot that does not interfere with having opening the cabinet.
If I had one of those, I might be less tempted to stash machines so close to each other.
Originally Posted by Cogito
This is a Singer 293B. Made in France. Kinda cool but...."The Singer 293B is a simple, (mostly metal) straight stitch only Singer made in Bonnieres, France in the 60s. It was imported, and marketed as a low-priced basic machine, and at the time of it’s introduction, it sold for about $75".....compliments of the sewingdude blog.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details....dId=1053586297 - I'd sure like to know who's "telling" people these things. I know it's not the shops in town, they try to get you to buy new and don't give anything for trade in.
Generic photo, and the 2 shops in question are in rented space and inventory not included so this is largely for the "Reputation" of this shop and I haven't met anyone yet who's raved (in their favor) about the shop.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details....dId=1052816242
02-26-2015, 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane
If it's anything like the 290C (Brazil) that I got as my first sewing machine - Run. Run far away. Faster.
02-26-2015, 04:14 PM
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The 290C is Brazilian, I have no doubt that the 293B is French. They still had factories everywhere then.
Probably a year ago someone posted internal pics of a 290C here in the VAME forum and it was all plastic inside a heavy metal body and theirs had a broken gear. The O(Singer)SMG that tuned mine up "way back" in... uh... early 2011 knew I was a tinkerer and told me not to open the top of that one and tinker because if I adjusted something wrong, he didn't think even he'd be able to put it back together. When you turn the big dial on it, the levers at the top move back and forth seemingly of their own will. That machine is why I thought I couldn't sew for 25 years.
Probably a year ago someone posted internal pics of a 290C here in the VAME forum and it was all plastic inside a heavy metal body and theirs had a broken gear. The O(Singer)SMG that tuned mine up "way back" in... uh... early 2011 knew I was a tinkerer and told me not to open the top of that one and tinker because if I adjusted something wrong, he didn't think even he'd be able to put it back together. When you turn the big dial on it, the levers at the top move back and forth seemingly of their own will. That machine is why I thought I couldn't sew for 25 years.
02-26-2015, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeanette Frantz
Cogito, I've never seen an electric machine made in "1889"! LOL!
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