amcatanzaro

I went to my local county museum today for a Santa visit and while I was there I was able to take some pictures of a few antique machines. It's probably going to be heavy on the pictures.

The Royal St John Sewing Machine Company was here in Springfield. This is one of their machines, I assume it sews forwards and backwards as the advertisements we have seen claim. There was a spotlight directly on this machine and the Weaver (?) behind it so there are shadows I couldn't get around. I kinda think both of these machines are Royals and the second one is on Weaver irons.


Mother of Pearl inlay


Patent Dates


This was the second machine there. The treadle irons said Weaver Treadle Company Springfield, Ohio. This was new information for me. I found a patent for it: http://www.google.com/patents/US243020




Here's the bonus machine, it was in a Civil War display behind glass.

miriam

http://www.springfieldohiohistory.ne...bumid=13318253
I looked it up - the one post card says the weaver runs backward or forward. WOW.

ThayerRags

I’ve found that all of my treadles run backwards and forwards, but I simply hate it when they run backwards.......


CD in Oklahoma

jlhmnj

These ads really confuse the heck out of me but I believe you can only go forward no matter which direction is treadled so it's kid and klutz friendly.

Jon

miriam

oooohhhhhhhhhh I NEED one of those...........

wilburness

the mother of pearl is beautiful on the weaver! thanks for sharing

amcatanzaro

There is mother of pearl on both of them. The flowers in the middle are on both. I assume they are St John's and the one with the mother of pearl path is the Royal and the other one is the Weaver? Maybe? I'm guessing since there was no posted information besides they were produced here.

miriam

Maybe you can be the one to inform the curator of the museum!!! Sometimes the curator will know but not have things well presented.

mighty

Such awesome machines!!!!

SteveH

the Civil war machine looks like a Grover and Baker Double chainstitch.