Mine is so worn out looking...... wowzer.

Ohhhh, what a beauty. Congratulations!

I don't think I have seen one that nice. Good score!

Wow! That one is a beauty. Sorry, firsst thing I did was look for the black plastic feed dog knob the reproductions have. I'm happy to see it's not there.
Rodney

She's beautiful beyond description. My goodness, I would love to know the history of some of these old machines, who owned them, and where the families of these owners are today and what they are doing with their lives.

Jeanette

... I'm hoping to use it Steve, but I have to confess that after today's attempt at cleaning up the metal parts, I might be too scared! It's super shiny but I'm not convinced there's any shellac still protecting the decals. I've never had a machine where I needed to worry about it before so I'm a bit stressed out about that. I wanted to remove the rust blooming on the corroded parts before I put it away until after I move. This one deserves some extra care and patience to get back to working order :)

... and I'm glad you like it! It's almost too gaudy with all the gold intact, so I know what you mean, but it really is incredible to see it like when it was new!

Don't blame you Rodney!

I was very pleased to find out even a little something about the owners. I've had a run of getting machines and finding out absolutely nothing, so it was a nice change :)

Beautiful machine! Glad you got it!

The decals are just stunning!! Thank you for sharing a picture of your machine.
Is it a hand crank or a treadle?
Sharon

I saw one of these in much worse condition recently on shop goodwill, I think. Your's is so much more beautiful! I'd be afraid to touch it at all - maybe it belongs in a museum!

Margaret

It has a hand crank on it Sharon but the decorations on the crank are for a lotus machine. So maybe I need to see if there's anyone out there with a sphynx hand crank on their Lotus that wants to swap ;)