Because of the interest in my little write up about The Patent 469199 Machine (Needlebar classification National Seamstress class), I decided to collect the names I know of this machine being called. It seems to have been a popular badge machine, a machine sold in batches with the purchaser's desired name on it.
As I find memorabilia or names are sent to me, I'll add them here. This is a call out to the sewing machine community, because without everyone's help this kind of information can't be collected.
Known Patent 469199 Machine names
Arlington
Burlington Hawkeye
Germania (name of many German language newspapers in USA)
New England Queen
Pokrok Zapadu (Czech language newspaper in USA)
Seamstress
Seebote (German language newspaper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Texas Advocate
Possible: Courier Journal (an ad resembles this machine but none have showed up in person)
Serial numbers: Both 5 digit and 6 digit numbers have shown up. My Germania is SN 33,255. The Pokrok Zapadu was in the 500,000s. There is no idea of how long these machines were made, or if they were their own separate serial number list.
Thank you to: Marion, Robyn, Laura, Damascus Annie, John, Judy (aka dvrtiska from ISMACS)
PS -- if anyone knows what happened to Judy aka dvrtiska, I'd like to know. She sent me the below scans from Pokrok Zapadu newspaper Nov 3, 1897. It matched her family machine, which I helped her ID as The Patent 469199 Machine.
I"ve seen a number of Arlington machines listed in the Baltimore/DC area, but I od=dont know whether any of them were this particular model.
ReplyDeleteYou can get the scanned whole page of that Pokrok Zapadu advert at https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn83045348/1897-11-03/ed-1/seq-5/print/image_539x817_from_0,0_to_4364,6603/