About a month ago I came across a Gritzner with swirly art deco decals; white water lilly flowers with gold and green. I have notice this set of decals before and the machine it self was in very nice condition. At first the price was a bit high, it was lowered a Sturday I went there, but I still hesitated buying it because it was missing a hand crank and shuttle. It was on a wooden base that looked like it came from a treadle setup, the threadle stand was missing too. I'm guessing it might have come from a treadle table with an option to make the machine a portable as well as treadle. The wood lid (case) and key was with the machine. After the weekend, Monday morning I passed the charity store, went in, I had the money in my pocket but it was gone.
I'm guessing this was a machine made ca 1900 to 1910, possibly WWI; mostly because of the decals and the shape of the machine. It's a type of VS model.
The intesting thing about it is 3/4 size and a revese stitch length lever. I have search the web up and down and the closest I could find is
this, it might be spot on the model but hard to be sure.
Searching the web I have come across
this model too. It looks like central bobbin type; but I haven't found any info on it. It has a nice stitch length lever with reverse. I'm sure this is at least a decade or two before Singers model 101, 201 and later 15 were given a stitch length lever. Have any of you had your hands on a similar model?