![]() I’ll tell you all about it next time 😉 EDIT: A bit more digging turned up a, which has a six-drawer model that is different from mine. Oh, and I finished the Kwik Sew underwear. It’s pretty beaten up on my machine, but parts of it are still visible. It’s actually a measuring-tape decaled onto the surface of the wood. Oh, yeah, along the edge of the board on the illustration, just in front of the sewing machine, you can see a series of regular ticks. It makes me wonder if that part might’ve been replaced, or if it just happened to be a different factory lot from the illustration. Points of discordance: Ok, really there’s only the foot pedal, which is distinctly different, and, frankly, doesn’t look like any of the Eaton’s foot-pedals I’ve looked at in the last few days. Every detail of the tension, threading, stitch-length screw, and even decals are pretty much spot on, allowing for a small amount of artistic licence (and a LOT of crud and wear on my machine). ![]() Identification is sometimes difficult because many different machines across the range were sold under the Eldredge.Įven though the catalogue copy describes this machine as the “Seamstress”, if you click on the illustration to see the full-size image, the machine says “Improved Seamstress”. ![]() ![]() Ī vintage Eldredge sewing machine from the National Sewing Machine, model A, serial number 235804. But it’s really distinctive both in its plain-ness, the six drawers, and the shape of the bits on either side of the drawers. I had started off looking in 20s catalogues because I thought the plain, almost masculine style of the woodwork looked newer, although most twenties machines seem to have more art-nouveau kind of decals. ZOMG there it is! Also, Yes, that appears to be my machine. ![]()
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