Sister Child's Sewing Machine So Many Question
 

Hello,
I have another great goodwill find. It is the sweet little machine in the pictures. It is a Sister child's sewing machine. I am curious to find a users guide or manual. It makes noise, the light comes on but you have to turn the handle to make the needle go up and down. Is that how it should be? Any information would be appreciated.
Amy

Cool machine. Have you tried oiling it yet? On one of my machines I had to let the oil set in the warmth of sunlight for a bit before things loosened up.

Yes that is a hand crank operated toy.

Amy,
It looks like it may have originally came with a foot controller that would have been wired through the empty hole next to the power cord. I'm curious as to what the knob in front of the pillar does. When you said "It makes noise," I initially thought that maybe it was broken gears or belt. I found this site http://zipsanddarts.blogspot.com/201...oy-sewing.html that shows two of them threaded and says that it takes 24x1 needles.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

So is the electric for the light on it if it is a hand crank toy? There are a lot of these cute machines running around from this period of time with all kinds of names on them. Have fun.

Very cute!

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*** Cool looking machine. Hope you can get it working.
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That is so cute! I'm not a toy collector but I do have two Baby Brother toy machines(what else?), and an Eldregette that belonged to my Aunt.

Cari

Cute little machine!

I'm very late to this discussion but I had a Sister Sewing Machine as a child! Yes, it is an electric and I see that yours has lost its foot pedal.
The Sister is a chain stitch machine that doesn't require a bobbin.
The knob in the front is the speed setting.

So cool to see this little machine again, it was a great part of my childhood.