jlhmnj

There was a Sidney L. Clark, Weed secretary in 1868:

https://books.google.com/books?id=XB...retary&f=false

Jon

Cogito

there ya have it then. Makes sense.

SteveH

fantastic folks! Thank you very much for all of the help!

costumegirl

All so interesting when finding such a document and ,just like Cathy mentioned, especially so when you have machines of the era

SteveH

it is pretty cool.

I just picked up a Mat Cutting system. I priced getting these old documents mounted and it was over $150 each!!!!!

The tools and the mat sheet for ALL of them is less than the price of one "professionally" done job.

now to develop one more new skill.....

QuiltingVagabond

I'm sure you will be cutting perfect mats in no time Steve! How's the repair on your broken machine coming along? I wanted to show my DH your new acquisition, and can't find the thread - I imagine it was too disparaging to allow us to read anyway, I hope you post more photos of the repairs.

maviskw

So that first letter is a poorly made S, and the second is a small capital L connected to the S. I can see it now.

maviskw

A lot of people mat and frame their own pictures. You can do it.
But what about the "ghost"? I would be interested in seeing that magnified. Or at least visible. I have seen documents mounted with glass on both sides. You could do that with this.
Good Luck!

Tink's Mom

Steve, you find the most interesting things! I always feel a bit more educated after these little forays into sewing machine history...

SteveH

here is some more research from the folks at Needlebar.org.

The Weed letter was most likely referring to George Fairfield's improved machine, patents being granted in March and July 1867. There doesn't seem to be anything else produced by Weed around that time.


And by April 1867 the company was advertising "a new model. A novel improvement."


Here is the March Patent referred to https://www.google.com/patents/US63149
Here is the July Patent referred to: http://www.google.com/patents/US67179



Sidney L Clark worked his way up from being a merchant of some sort, to a sewing machine manager by the 1870s and went on to be associated with patents from the Florence (Sewing Machine) Company by the 1880s. In fact he became an agent for the Florence Company.