You have a beautiful machine. Hope you can get her up and running!

Very nice! Hope you get all the info you need,ENJOY!!!!!

What a nice machine. The decals are in wonderful shape. I don't have any more information than what has been provided. Be careful, the vintage machine bug is very contagious.

If you are concernded about room required to put it in a treadle cabinet to use, I agree with the hand crank option.

In 1897, the company introduced a number of new models including another vibrating shuttle machine badged as the 'ACME' and manufactured by The Free Sewing Machine Company of Rockford, Illinois. 1899 saw the introduction of a vibrating shuttle sewing machine made by The Davis Sewing Machine Company of Dayton, Ohio. With a few exceptions, Davis would become the sole supplier of sewing machines to Sears until about 1912. It is during this time period that we have many of the Minnesota brand machines including the Models A, B, C, D, and K to name a few.

Beginning in 1911, the company introduced a number of machines based on Singer designs. They were the 'Franklin' (1911) and the 'Minnesota A' (1914), copies of Singer's Model 27/127 class manufactured by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company of Buffalo, New York. The 'Franklin' was decorated with Egyptian styled decalcomania, clearly in imitation of Singer's beautiful 'Memphis' decoration scheme. The 'Minnesota' was decorated in the same type of gold filigree used on the Davis-made 'Minnesota A.'

from an article: http://www.ismacs.net/sears/sears.html

more links: http://www.google.com/images?q=minne...ls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=2i8iTcylJMOC8gat4qSTCg&sa=X&oi=im age_result_group&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CDYQsAQwAQ &biw=1031&bih=450

cool, huh? It's a beauty, btw. congrats!

Thanks SewTinker. :)

I joined the ISMACS site, which I think will be very helpful. :)

The machine is an "L" series; you can see the "L" on the upper right of the machine.

I agree with you. For as much as it doesn't look like it, it is very heavy!

Yippieh!

I have and Minnesota L model. My husband cleaned and oiled it and it runs very smoothly. I think my model was made for Sears in 1912.