You've just gotta love the 'Little Old Ladies' (3/4 size or smaller vintage machine)
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I just fixed up another cute 3/4 size machine. It is a Montgomery Ward made by Happy. This little machine has zig zag. I'm not sure of the date of it. Probably right before MW shut down just a guess. There is no light. It is not light weight either but not terribly heavy. The bobbin is like a Singer 15. Takes the 15 bobbins. The stitch length is missing something to set the size stitch. When I got it it was skipping stitches - the needle was in the wrong position. Other wise it works nicely.
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What model is that one Miriam?
Here’s a photo of the replacement UHT-J266B (serial #86X 7547). The bed is 6 1/2” by 12”, and it weighs a whopping 26 pounds.
CD in Oklahoma
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Model number UHT J266E I dug out the magnifying glass so I could see it.
CD your info sounds about right on the age from the looks of it. When did MW go out of business? Early 1980s?
CD your info sounds about right on the age from the looks of it. When did MW go out of business? Early 1980s?
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My wife ordered hers out of the Wards Catalog a short time after we got married. She used a big chunk of our wedding gift money to pay for it as I seem to recall. That was back when $44 was a lot of money to us.
Actually, Wards got the order fouled up and sent her 2; 1 by USPS Parcel, and 1 by freight truck. She sent one back and then had to argue with Wards for quite some time that she wasn’t due a refund. They finally took the credit off of their books.
Do you have any history of your machine? It didn’t come out of a yardsale in southwestern Oklahoma in the early 90s, did it?
CD in Oklahoma
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