A Weed, maybe by another name?
 

A fellow collector posted photos of an odd find. He allowed me to share here in case someone can shed more light on the machine. Everything about it says 'Weed' except for a few odd things such as what appears to be what's left of a leaf tension and a raised area where the attachments screw in to the machine bed and the very open shuttle race. The decals appear waterslide as opposed to painted. But the serial number is located along the front bed edge like later Weed machines.

Very curious. Here are some of the photos.

Suzanne

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I can't help, but it is cool. Will wait and see what it turns out to be.

very interesting.. off to do some research

I am still scratching me head on this one. Someone asked if it maybe had a Howe style wheel tension mounted on top of the post, but my thoughts are that that would be too far out of the thread path. I wonder if this was one of Weed's last style of machine before they ended production. Those decals and the pillar look familiar along with what looks to be an oval decoration on the bed.

Suzanne

I have been doing some looking and research and I think it is a Weed. I am still doing research.

that leaf tension looks kind of like what my Weed has.

Maybe similar to this

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

well, I asked my expert buddy and got this reply... "How much you want for it? No idea what it is, not a Weed, nota Whitney... It's odd! "

LOL

so, the research continues....

I was on Sewmuse site - and he has list of US sewing machine manufactures, and for many, no one knows anything except that they filed papers of incorporation. Makes you wonder what some of those machines looked like. And we all know that sometimes they liked to copy another (and sometimes that is what put them out of business too LOL!!)

Well my research so for is a blank. I don't know what it is either. I hope someone can find what it is.

Suzanne, Just to confuse the issue some more -- I was looking at the 1978 manual that was for the "Improved Family Favorites" and found an open shuttle but not on a rod and the needle arm rod was inside the arm.

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I'm going to guess that the slide plates were missing as well?

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.