Montgomery Ward badged 1886 ? Machine
 

I just bought an antique treadle machine badged Montgomery Ward and Company Improved High Arm with gorgeous cabinetDefinitely not a Singer knock off. Patent date on front slide 1886, tensioning arrangement center top. Since it has never been electrified is there a way to add a hand crank?
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I have this MW made by National. I use mine in a treadle no way to add hand crank. It would take a major modification to add one. Sorry

Yea, it is hard to find any hand cranks that aren't Singers and many machines don't have mounts for them.

Can’t bring myself to damage the machine. There are new hand cranks available, but there has to be a threaded hole in the column to hold it to the machine. Not there, and not going to be one.
Glenn, I need a manual or something that shows me how to thread and work the machine. Fortunately it came with a set of feet, needles, and the cabinet. I wish I could post a picture, but I get a message that the .jpeg won’t load. Any idea why?

I though this was probably a National. Do you have a manual or instructions for it? I have feet and needles which were in the cabinet, All in nice shape in a black box lined with velvet

good choice not to try to adapt it. It isn't just the screw hole. The boss is a protrusion with hard sides that the crank has to fit so it won't slip sideways., Also it would have to be set nearly perfectly in place on both axises. QB likes very small pics. redu[ATTACH=CONFIG]615805[/ATTACH]ce your and re-try.

Being a rectangular bed, it's more likely to be in the early 1900's for age.

This is an early National - yours looks quite similar.

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This is an earlier Eldredge machine - made before National was formed.

https://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c...psjwxgppqg.jpg

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It looks almost exactly like my mother's New England Queen, made by National out of Illinois, but not sure of spelling of town, but Belvedere maybe? I still use mother's treadle, and have a UFO that I started on that machine. The quilt top is 3/4 way pieced.

Yep, Belvedere. One of mine was 12" away when I read this.

MW badged 1886 in full cabinet
 

How do I upload pictures from my phone?

Welcome to Quilting Board, Anne.
We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf and on an ipad at https://www.quiltingboard.com/qb-hel...d-t321918.html

Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "Upload" button. As shown at https://www.quiltingboard.com/8565676-post4.html

I have found that only the big red "Reply" button or "Quote" work to give me the paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
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Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f...d-t312607.html

Another way to post pictures can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/showpo...postcount=1143
And how to use an ipad to post pictures can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/qb-hel...s-t318147.html

Or simply - Make sure pictures are smaller than 2MB
Click on red "Reply" button
Click on the paper clip icon
Click browse - choose picture/s. (only 5 allowed per post)
Once they show up as being loaded, Scroll over to the right side and click on "Upload"
After the pictures show up as being attached, you can close that window and go back to the screen to finish posting your post.

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The photos generally need to be reduced to less than 2MB in size. I have heard of people sending an email to themselves as it will ask if you want to reduce the size.

I have an android phone and when I tried to reply on Quilting Board while in mobile view None of the options for adding pictures was available. However, there is an option down at the bottom left of the page that is for Full Site when I tapped on "Full Site" It then looked like the way it looks on my lap top. So it would have the Red Reply and the Go Advanced options.

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