This week I have finished my slouch hat and cowl and want to put them here.
I also picked up my "new" treadle sewing machine. I paid for it last November, but ran into a few problems in being able to get it. Mostly, between having the septic freeze up while we were gone in November, and having to have my brake master cylinder replaced (which meant I had no rig), I didn't get to get the machine until this week.
When I called about picking it up, the clerk told me that she didn't remember me paying for it so it was sold, but she had another left (she had received 5 as trade-in on a new embroidery machine in November) and would let me have that one. I wasn't sure but decided to go look at it. I guess that I was supposed to have this Gritzner because I felt the easy action of the wheel on the machine itself and the absolutely beautiful balance and smooth action of the treadle wheel and pedal and fell in love.
I believe I did get a better deal because, the sewing shop had been run into by a car and bent the wall. Both of the treadle machines (the first one I paid for and the one I actually got) were thrown over and had damage. The pictures of the one I had paid for were pretty bad. But the reason the person took it was because the table on the Gritzner had been knocked completely loose and the machine had to be removed. When I first saw the Gritzner, the sewing machine had been removed and the table was upside down.
Notice the small hole on the right side of the table base? We filled it with glue and toothpicks so we will be screwing into something that is more solid. The only original part missing is one of the 8 screws for the 4 metal pieces that hold the table on.
We are waiting for the glue to dry so we can put the tabletop back on.
This is the underside of the tabletop. The two black pieces on the left of the hole are the hinges that keep the sewing machine from falling through the hole. I can hardly wait to start using it. I know that the machine works because I ran a couple of stitches through it by turning the wheel on the machine.
I believe that this machine is from the 1920's but I have no proof. The only thing that I have found on this machine are the letters "VG" and 345621.
The site http://fiddlebase.jimdo.com/german-machines/gritzner/gritzner-by-serial-numbers/ has a list of Gretzner machines and the numbers seem place it between 1920 and 1925. Again, no proof.
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