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I'll venture a wild guess. The center support looks like something off a Sears Minnesota from 1910 or so. Google Sears Minnesota and view Images. If this isn't it I'd do the same with other makers from this time period but it might just be Sears. Also the bases vary from year to year even by the same makers. Hope this helps.
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Yep - looks like you were right - I found this pic of a Minnesota B, and my base does have holes in the right places where it would bolt to the cabinet.
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I hope to be published in a few years and then we all can critique the snot out of it until it is right!!
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When you do get your book published let us know so were can buy a copy of it with your signature. Kathie
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When you do get your book published let us know so were can buy a copy of it with your signature. Kathie
I swear if that works I will owe you coffee or a FQ or my firstborn son...well, you wouldnt' want any of my sons, too much maintenance...I owe you the next VSM I find. I don't know, but it's something! It looks like I was putting it on a bit backwards. I'm going to fiddle with it tomorrow and see if I can get it to match the pic. That would be AWESOME.
Thank you.
~M~
Thank you.
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This sort of has to do with a question I've been meaning to ask... is there a way to find out what kind of machine/cabinet the irons originally came from? I needed a table for my front entry and refused to pay the $250 all the furniture stores wanted for tables so my husband and I hit up the craft antique co-op.We found this for $40 - and since it was already past being a base and it is beautiful, its now Gretel's base. Any way to tell what it came from? It's 29" tall - the irons on my White treadle measure 14" to the wooden cabinet - these are really tall! I'd really like to know, but have no idea where to even start -- anyone recognize the shape/pattern?
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here's one similar to my cabinet, no pic of machine though
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/atq/2708325343.html
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/atq/2708325343.html
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Minnesota-Se...#ht_500wt_1180
Guess the location would be called the "collar" of the handwheel or part of handwheel closest to the buisiness end. This pin (peg?) has to be driven from the small end. On mine it was a real PITA cause it hadn't been removed in 140 years and may not be worth removing for painting (?) Hope this is clear.
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Yes, it gets even worse when the DD has caught the "virus" also. No hope here in this household.
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