I have just spotted this lovely thing in a shop not too far away.
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The needle and bobbin move beautifully when the wheel is turned, and the treadle turns the wheel underneath the cabinet smoothly and freely, but the treadle belt is missing. It seems to me (who knows next to nothing about these things) that this link should be quite straightforward...?
The decals are very good, but looking at
Fiddlebase the dacals suggest 1896, but the fact that it's a treadle machine suggests 1901. The serial number on the machine is 577, but I can't find any info about that - the serial numbers listed in various places seem to come from the manuals not the machines.
I didn't check that there was a bobbin in the shuttle case - presumably that's not likely to be too difficult to get? There is also a piece of rubber broken off from the thingy that goes against the wheel to wind the bobbin (the piece is there, but very hard, and not very grippy against the wheel) - again, would that be hard to replace?
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Does anyone have any advice? I'm sorely tempted, but don't want to end up with a machine that doesn't work. The question of where on earth I would put it is also a salient one... and may prove to make it impossible anyway.