I am not an encyclopedia of sewing machine knowledge but I did research on mine a bit ago so I checked the places I found my info. Since Eldredge made machines under that name from 1869-1890 and most of their early models were hand cranks I would hazard a guess it is a Model 'B' from the 1890's.

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Gradually though a small number of firms started to produce primative sewing machines. Eldredge Sewing Machine Co. Formed to sell the sewing machines Machine. Serial number will be found stamped into the bed of the machine. Illinois which was formed in 1890 by the merger of the Eldredge Sewing.

He was born three miles as the crow flies from Raphine on 1 August 1829. His mum was Isabella Poague Gibbs from Connecticut. As James grew he worked, like all children in those days, for his father on the farm and in his father's carding business. Carding was a popular business as wool and cotton had to be disentangled from clumps of fibre into a continuous thread for cloth manufacture by the use of cards which were basic brushes with wire pins that stripped the wool into straight fibres. In 1845 a fire broke out in his father's carding business, which he ran from a mill on the farm, and it completely destroyed everything. The business ruined, James at the age of 16, decided to leave home and strike out on his own.

It also handles very heavy thread like the yellow jean top stitch thread. It is also is deceptively strong, it does not look like it would but this one can sew through heavier material quite well. Stitch samples The stitches are adjusted by a sliding knob on the side, another different feature. It is numbered from 1 to 10. Number 1 being the longest stitch. It is really long too, perfect for basting.

Guide 1 H9150 National Odd Badge Pivot Set back Electric H10474 Eldredge Pivot 3*** Treadle Eldredge H10859 Western Electric** Pivot Hort. Guide Portable H16348 Eldredge Pivot 2 Treadle H18934 Eldredge Pivot Hort. Guide 2 2 Set back Treadle NSMCO H22697 Western Electric** Pivot Hort. Guide 2 2 Set back Portable H25714 Eldredge 3 H28230 Eldredge Slide Hort. Guide 3 H29895 National Slide Hort. Guide 3 2 Set back Treadle H30681 Eldredge 3 H33627 Western Electric** H36182 Eldredge 1 replaced H37757 Eldredge Slide 2 H43535 National 3 H49387 National Slide Set back Portable H52469 National 3 H53848 National Slide 45* Guide 3 3 Set back Portable N/A H54778 National H56444 Graybar* 3 H57095 45* Guide 3 Set back Table/Motor H57867 National Slide 3 H60751 National 3 H62429 National H66255 National Slide 45* Guide Set back Electric H68109 National Slide 45* Guide Set back Unknown H69497 National Slide 45* Guide 3 3 Set back Treadle NationalSMCO H70248 National 3.

The finished sewing machines were sent to America and supplied to retailers around Europe. The rest of the work was sub contract engineering work, precision engineering for the MOD and crankshafts for Seagull outboard motors. At one point MEC-Willcox was the largest distributor of sewing machine parts in the world. They had come a long way from their roots in New York. Work in the Poole factory varied depending on the state of the pound versus the dollar. This meant the order book would range from 3 years to 3 months depending whether it was cheaper to manufacture in the UK or the states. I am not sure when the flatlock was first built but certainly some of the drawings we were working from were drawn by Bowne and Sharpe and I seem to remember a date of around 1923 on some of them.

Guide 1 1 Set forward Treadle N/A H7718 Blank Badge Pivot Hort. Guide 1 1 Set forward Electric head only H8293 Eldredge Pivot Hort.

In 1866 James cleverly refused to to become an officer in Willcox & Gibbs when it was incorporated as a Company and issued shares. This may have been a wise decision because of his Confederate roots, which were still being persecuted. The company continued under the control of directors Sharpe (from Brown & Sharpe), Willcox & Willcox, though still trading as Willcox & Gibbs to the public. Even so when James Gibbs went to get his patents extended (as everyone was doing because of the loss of profits during the war), his was refused because as the court put it, He had engaged in rebellion, and thus his patents were invalid.

Much appreciated! Unfortunately the very fact that the machine had been so drastically repainted leads one to believe that the original finish likely was not in good condition to begin with - if it was in fact repainted. This may very well have been an industrial model and therefore not sold with the shiny, decal'd finish. That said, you could easily give it the fancier finish. I can't believe that removing the paint and getting a new lacquer finish would be very difficult, but I wouldn't hold out on saving any original decals if they are hiding under there. You can easily find new decals for, but you may have to do some scrounging to find anything to match those beauties it probably came with.

He was transfixed by this new gadget that had the potential to change the world. Over the next few months in his spare time he tried to copy the construction of the machine working out how each piece must work. He did this with his carpentry tools, a penknife, chisel, a few farm tools and some wood and spare bits of metal. Keen or what! Because he had only seen the top half of the he had to imagine how the bottom would work. 'I first discovered that the needle was attached to the needle arm, and consequently could not pass entirely through the material, but must retreat through the same hole by which it had entered. From this I saw that it could not make a stitch similar to handwork, but must have some other mode of fastening the underside and, among other possible ideas of doing this, the chain stitch occurred to me.'

Double loop stitch machines like the Grover & Baker produce a large ridge of thread beneath the work that it is impossible to make a flat seam. The Seams produced by our machines has none of the defects mentioned. The Willcox & Gibbs machines are of the highest degree and simplicity in use. They produce a stitch so reliable, so perfectly effective and so under control that a child may manage our machines successfully. This advert was to show how the W&G machine stitch held out while the lock stitch simply failed.

The shaft was ground to size and had a flat milled on to it. A washer was soldered onto the shaft to but up against the end of the shaft running under the machine. The hook was polished all over and machined and polished so the hook was in the correct position.

Willcox & Gibbs 658 Broadway New York. Let us go back a little and look at exports in the early years of the company. Willcox & Gibbs Hand Cranks Due to the weight of shipping the machines to Europe and England, the firm had special hand wheels cast, originally in Coalbrookdale, England, (been there it's great ). These hand wheel or hand crank versions were completely different to the large cast iron treadle ones that sold in the States and have proved a great favourite with collectors. Coalbrookdale Coalbrookdale has been referred to as the one of the most extraordinary places in the world. It was where the industrial revolution all started in the 18th century. A steep valley with the fast flowing River Severn cutting through its middle it was the perfect place.

Average wage £300 a week times that by 12. Now you see why they are such good buys on Ebay. Grab one while you can before they rocket again!

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I'd seen any number of them go by on eBay, but didn't want to pay shipping on a common machine so I was waiting for one to turn up locally on Craigslist or 'where ever'. What I wasn't expecting was one to turn up badged 'American Beauty'; although I shouldn't have been surprised as American Beauty is a known National badge. So this machine embodies a convergence of two separate sewing machine interests: Its a Reversew 'Rex', and its badged 'American Beauty' so I went ahead and grabbed it even though my primary interest in American Beauties are the mostly made in Japan. Zorba has scanned and made freely available a PDF of the (15MB).

JG From this early attempt at a sewing machine his models went on to be one of the best-selling sewing machines of all time and certainly the longest production run of a single model in the history of the world. This in turn made James Gibb phenomenally wealthy. They say James later named the huge farm he bought 'Raphine Hall' from the Greek, Raphis, 'to sew.' Legend tells, that he became so well known and powerful that Raphine Community was named after him. In 1876, when James had amassed a fortune he bought his eldest daughter, Florence Gibb (who had married Benjamin Cason Rawlings) a farm near Raphine which they called Las Vegas.

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I often placed orders with them for the last parts of the once famous W&G chainstitch. In fact I bought their last ever stock of six loopers for the W&G 64 chainstitch and the last needle spanner they had. As the company faded from history, like a shout dying in the wind, I bought up the final parts that were available before they were dumped into a skip and lost forever. Eastman's and Bogod are still trading but Willcox & Gibbs chain stitch machines have been resigned to the history books and to collectors shelves. Once they were such a power house of manufacturing that the great Isaac Singer could only dream of matching them. The James Gibbs wooden & metal sewing machine of the early 1850's with unique hook mechanism to make a chain stitch.

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