NightFox17

Oh! Ok. Thanks!

SteveH

ok, I think we got it... (With the gracious help of Mike from Wolfegangs)

This is the badge of the June Sewing Machine Company. (June Manufacturing Company actually)
"Makers of Improved Singer Sewing machines"

Here is a cool bit at the Smithsonian about the company (early documentation)
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...ges/image1.htm

Here is an article about Singer taking them to court for name infringment
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/169/

According to WorldCat they were in business from 1860 to 1929

redbugsullivan

Stouer, German made.

SteveH

Sure looks like it! Good eye.

Stoewer

http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...130994-12.html

http://vintageelectronics.nl/_script...wing%20machine

I'll send the info to Mike as well

Jeanette Frantz

Steve, there's a short historical piece on ISMACS.net about National Sewing Machine Company, June Manufacturing and Eldredge -- might be interesting!

Jeanette

NightFox17

Yup my girlfriend ended up figuring out it was a Stoewer thanks to your information also.

Our machine is almost identical to the one in the video, with some differences. I'm guessing different years.

The one on the video is call "The Pheonix" and I'm finding it really hard to read pheonix from what was on the machine. Like I said it seemed more along the lines of "Sarina", but I could be wrong.

I wish there was something like the Singer site were you could easily figure out the date of the machine through the serial number.

Laurajbr

I put myself through college in large part with a featherweight! The year I started school the fashion for pants went from wide leg to narrow, and my Featherweight would do denim, corduroy anything I asked of it. It went astray in a move, and I was heartbroken.

Farmhousesewer

I know the logo is not correct, but is it possible the name is Caesarina? That the badged name from Silberberg & Co. , a German distributor of machines. The logo sure looks like a C J and S.

Farmhousesewer

Just a shot!
Is it possible the name is Caesarina? That would make it a badged machine distributed by J Silberberg & Co, a German sewing machine distributor. The logo badge looks like it has a S, C and J on the brass badge, but that is not what the Silberberg logo, that I am familiar with, looks like! Maybe it was changed?

After the war, people tried to remove any name that would tie a sewing machine to Germany. Since it is not a drophead machine, I can't attribute the name being so light to handling the head each time the machine was lifted.

HelenAnn

Yesterday this machine jumped out at me and I had to bring it home. It has a motor but no cords or foot peddle.[ATTACH=CONFIG]506519[/ATTACH]