Hi, I am new here. I just tried to post a photo of my latest vintage machine but I guess because I am new I cannot post any photo's yet?
But anyway I will tell you about them.
In June I went to a country fair with a Vintage themed tent, I didn't intend to buy anything but I guess you all know how that ends?
DD1 and myself decided we loved the vintage sewing machine, didn't know anything about it and didn't even ask if it worked, we just bought it. Luckily we got a bargain, clean, working, good decals and accessories and shuttle. I discovered through various online sites that it is a Silberberg badged machine made in Germany in 1907 by Winselmann. We cleaned it up and oiled it, adjusted the tension and it works beautifully.
Then a week or so later we decided we needed another one so we could have one each, as you do, right!
This time we went to our vast antiques centre and spotted a Singer 28k machine under the counter, missing it's tension unit knob! (we didn't know that then) it had a key to it's cover and a bag full of accessories. It was just £25! So we took it home and cleaned it up, oiled it, we found it was the pretty Victorian pattern decals. Then we ordered a tension unit and fitted it in last Sunday and finally she runs like a dream.
Then, I was visiting my friend and noticed she had a vase of flowers ontop of a sewing machine cover! I wouldn't care but I had been visiting her every week for over 30 years and never ever noticed this? She had no key for it so I couldn't look at it. It had never been opened in the 35 years she had been there, and was left by the previous owners.
I looked at the key hole and discovered it was a key shaped, so this week I took my own sewing machine key and my wardrobe key. It opened with the wardrobe key! (good job I read that wardrobe keys sometimes open sewing machine covers).
We discovered a very dusty old German transverse shuttle machine, good decals, but I don't know if it will work yet. I am going to clean and oil it on my next visit. And I will be testing it out too. I am aiming to give it a good home if she doesn't want it (as a table for her flowers!).
I have photo's of all 3 machines to show when I am able to post photographs.
But isn't it brilliant that these machine even though they are over 100 years old, they still work like magic with nice even stitches.