#Jones hand crank sewing machine roses serial number#
#Jones hand crank sewing machine roses free#

These machines were often given British sounding names or labeled for specific importers or retailers so the same machine can be known by three or more names!Д«eing cast based it is easy to think these machines were made earlier than infact they were, for example 'The Elsa' was produced for over 35 years during which the design remained largely unchanged and the machine was still in production at the start of the First World War. Put the two together and''.German Sewing Machines GERMAN MADE MACHINESД¬ast base machine seem to have been particularly popular with German manufacturers and most were produced in vast quantities for export. This Kimball & Morton ~Stitch in Time~ serpentine machine can also be regarded as being rare, not quite at the level of the Jones but, rare nontheless. Well let us compare it to the Kimball & Morton ~Stitch in Time~ serpentine machine of the same era! Yes, that's right a Kimball & Morton serpentine machine, wow!

Now the big question, who made this machine? fig 3 These are but a few of the differences between this the first model and the more common ones found today. fig 2 The brass needlebar cover is also unique to this machine in design. The balance wheel has a square edge with no indentation for a treadle belt.

#Jones hand crank sewing machine roses free#

This first model Jones Hand did not allow the balance wheel to be free spinning. Secondly is the cotton tension located in the center, at the top of the arm, again this does not appear on any later model. I think most noticeable is the gadrooning that surrounds the entire base of the machine this does not appear on any later model but it is replaced by a decal. Let us look at some key points with this ~first~ Jones Hand machine. One is in a private Japanese collection and of course my own, here in the newly established NSMMA or National Sewing Machine Museum of Australia. I have on good authority, many thanks ~G.F~, been advised there are only two of these rare Jones Hand machines known to exist in the world today. 30 seconds later I had promised to send the money for this sight unseen machine and the rest is now history.

Ok, I am interested but I will have to see pictures first before I say yes or no. At this point plastic surgery is imminent! Are you sure there are no other numbers? 485, that is all there is. Let me get my glasses, ok, here it is, 485. A simple question that confirmed either the guy could not see or this machine was something special.

#Jones hand crank sewing machine roses serial number#

On Jones Hand machines, also known as serpentine or cat back machines, the serial number can be found under the slide plate stamped into the cast housing. The answers that came back had me scratching my head, I thought at this point the guy did not have the machine and was making the whole thing up, but why go to this length to sell a machine that did not exist?ДЄ question I should have asked right from the start was what is the serial number?

It took two seconds to understand that this third machine was in fact a Jones Hand as it said so on the needlebar cover! I have a great fondness for the early Jones Hand machines and asked several pertinent questions in order to determine just how early it was. The first two machines didn't even bat my eyelids but the description of the third had placed a smile on my face that today still requires plastic surgery. What exactly do you want to sell can you describe the machines for me? After brief introductions and pleasantries, it was down to business. It was roughly a week later and very late at night that I received the call that I was not to forget. Of course, always being interested in old sewing machines I said I would love to know more about what he had for sale. According to Mike, this person had several old sewing machines he had obtained from a deceased estate and wished to sell them. Mike, more commonly known to the world of eBay as Wolfegangs-Collectibles had passed on my phone number to a person he had met whilst on a trip through Canada. I had been buying sewing machines from a now great friend Mike Anderson in New Hampshire, USA. If I am ever in Ontario, Canada, I will stop by to see John and thank him in person anyway. Every now and then luck or fate arrives at your door or in this particular case, the phone.ДЇor the sake of privacy, I have promised to keep the identity and in particular the location of where I obtained this rare machine private.