Glenn

I am glad all is having fun seeing my drawers. If this is all takes to get a laugh I will show them more often.

BoJangles

Yep, the whole no rain thing scares me! Sharon has a first hand experience with that issue! We will go through nothing like Texas did last year, but I always worry cause no rain will cause hay prices to soar and I am feeding 6 horses! The weeds in my back yard don't seem to care that we have got practically no rain all winter - they are going crazy! Monica, I am with you - mulching and adding lots of bark to keep things moist. Luckily, I have a pretty small landscaped yard and most of the rest of the place is drought resistent or natural or dry pastures!

I am frantically trying to figure out how to get down to see that treadle soon. I wanted to go on Monday - but, that is the day they are closed! Go figure! I may try and re-arrange so we could go tomorrow! Otherwise, I will have to wait until Wednesday. I am talking to a Joel who works or runs the store. He thinks the treadle will sell this weekend! Anyway, he gave me the serial number of #113768, which places the treadle at 1890 and made in Berlin! I am so excited! I hope I can get it - I will if I am suppose to!

Nancy

Charlee

~Puttin' on good dance music and waiting~

Charlee

Nancy...flip out your plastic over the phone!!

purplefiend

I think that Pfaff treadle uses common Singer feet, it looks like a 15 clone. I'd bet that the bobbin case and bobbins are still available from Pfaff. Those decals are to die for!
Sharon

Mizkaki

Nancy,

Beautiful machine!!
I enlarged the picture of the Pfaff treadle and the serial number has 7 digits, not 6 as quoted to you (looks more like 1139768). That makes it a much later date than 1890. It really looks much more like a 1910-1920ish model. Also looks like a class 15 "clone". If so it will take standard low shank feet and a generic 15 bobbin case.

Cathy

Quilt Mom

I was on the local CL today, and came across something I just had to go see. Well, it followed me home...

I got a Davis No. 25, serial number 1089317. The certificate of warranty (good for 5 years!), dated Aug, 9, 1907, is with her, as well as the receipt for $64.00, paid in full. It states the company is located in Dayton, Ohio. It was sold by McCaskill Brothers, of Oakland, NE. In the drawers are some attachments, a tube of needles, extra bobbins, the key for the cabinet. She has her shuttle. Now I need to get busy on cleaning! She needs work on both machine and cabinet. Decals are few. But the drawers are pretty. I haven't been able to post pics lately. Haven't figured out how since the change in the board. So until I can get a more tech-savvy family member to help, I can't share pics. Wish I could. She is pretty. I hope she sews well, too.

BoJangles

I would have no problem doing that, but we are talking a 4 hour trip, which I'd do in a heart beat, but this week is just booked solid for me! I don't want to buy the machine, and not be able to get it. Besides, the fact that I don't trust anyone to try to haul it! I don't want the machine nor cabinet damaged and most people have no clue how to haul something like that treadle. They say they will deliver, but I am just too anal to take that chance - I want to pick it up myself or at least know who ever picks it up knows its worth!

Nancy

BoJangles

Ok Cathy after talking to you on the phone, I did the same thing you did. I pulled up the machine and enlarged the bed and serial number. Yes, they left out a digit. It does look like 1139768 or something like that, which would put the machine at 1912! Exactly 100 years old! I was really surprised when Joel sent me the 6 digit number as I thought the machine looked like about 1910. Cathy thank you for explaining that little black thread guide - it almost looks like a tension disk - on top; and the little black thingy they used to attach a needle sharpener too.

Now explain to me why it would be made by a German company as well known and respected as Pfaff and be shaped like a class 15 machine? I always thought that Singer had the patent on the class 15 until we gave the Japanese the model 15 and 99 specs after WW2. The Japanese made tons and tons of Japanese Model 15s and 99s. Why would Pfaff have a class 15 machine dating back to 1912?

I don't care, just very curious as I love to learn about these things! I love those class 15 machines. I am going to do whatever I have to to get to Oakland to get that machine! I want to use that baby!

Nancy

BoJangles

Oh I hope you figure out how to post photos! I want to see her! Congratulations!

Nancy