Anyone have any knowledge of this machine?
 

This seeing machine is my mom's and we are just trying to gather info on it. It was found in an old attic. The wheel at the bottom still works and all the belts are there as well as the key.

Beautiful case. Isn't that the coffin style? Seems to me that they are about the oldest I've seen. Sorry I can't help you identify the machine. Good luck with her!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...d=492125&stc=1
Nice machine. I "think" subject to correction that it's a New Home badged as an American. But don't quote me on this.

Susan, welcome to the forum.
Now a bit of a request. For those of us on dial up, yes we dynosaurs still exist, please reduce the size of the pics, reorient them and lighten them up. It took 20 minutes for the three pics to load then I downloaded one to my hard drive and worked it over.
I know you're probably on some form of smart phone, but they don't always work with the internet.

Joe

What the heck is going on here? Just recently every time I put in a pic the forums system puts it in twice. I've seen this with other peoples posts too. What a waste of space. I even emailed the administrator about this, but she's ignoring me.

Joe

I've noticed that too Joe. :( Sorry you're feeling ignored.

Lovely treadle! I haven't seen one like it before but the table looks in really good condition from what I see. The head is interesting. I haven't seen one like it before. Are you planning to get it out and set it up?

There once was an American Sewing machine Company. The earlier ones used a very unique style shuttle, but I don't know if they stayed in business long enough to switch to a more conventional style.

This one does NOT look like anything I've seen before, the tension on the front and the stitch length lever (round thing on the pillar) are unique, so I think this is a genuine, late model American and not a badged machine made by someone else. I could be wrong - it's always fun when something "different" turns up and the search is on.

Do you have any paperwork with it?

I'd also love to see the shuttle and/or carrier. Since I've been cataloging attachments, I've found that there are certain measurements you can take that seem to be unique to most Mfg when they are top or round clamp feet (yours is top clamping).

I bit of looking at needlebar pictures.

I'd say yours IS an American - but a slightly later model than this one. This is a #7

http://needlebar.org/cm/displayimage..._display_media

This shows that the #9 took a regular style shuttle - so I'd hazard a guess that yours is a #9.

http://needlebar.org/cm/displayimage..._display_media

BTW - the company name is American Button-Hole Overseaming & Sewing Machine Company. They did more with industrial machines, but also made some for the domestic market.

The Boye chart I have lists the American #7 but not the #9. It does list an "American Union" and "New American" that take New Home needles/shuttles, so I'd guess those two are badged New Home machines, and no relation to yours.

Can you take a picture of the underside? Often they may look similar on the top side to help fool the customers, but the working parts are different as they were patented. Easiest way to see working parts it to look underneath.

I've not found any pictures of a #9 so far, I know these are very rare machines, so hopefully they either take the same needle/shuttle as one of the common ones, or you've got some with the machine to use.