My Daughters' Heritage: Their Great-Grandmother's 1917? Western Electric Sew-EZ Sewing Machine

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08-30-2011, 10:57 AM

#61

aronel

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What a beautiful and well taken care of baby. I would be tickled to death to have her. Your daughter is so lucky!

08-30-2011, 11:00 AM

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Oh, it is absolutely gorgeous! Good luck.

08-30-2011, 11:14 AM

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sue38

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What a beauty!!!

08-30-2011, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by nena

Beautiful. Check out that foot pedal.
What a treasure.

I know Nena! A little tiny shoe print shaped foot pedal! How cool is that!?!

08-30-2011, 12:25 PM

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Hi Lara - I have one of these gorgeous machines, too, and I also am leery of the electricals. We haven't tried replacing the wiring yet, but will be doing that this Fall.

You are right about the National Sewing Machine Company manufacturing this machine for Western Electric. Actually they only did it for 2 years, and then Western Elect decided not to sell them. You can find information on needles, bobbins and maybe a manual at the ISMACS website.

Janice, that is so neat that you have one too! Thank you for the added information. My SIL found a couple on eBay and there was one on Etsy too. But other than that they seem hard to come by. We were not sure how long they were in production and since it was only 2 years, it is no wonder. I must be a poor internet searcher, because I had no luck on the ISMACS website.

OK, here's a link to the manual on the Smithsonian website, which is where I got mine. Sorry about the misdirection to the ISMACS site...I got most of my others on there.

http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect.../NMAHTEX/0603/

You'll have to print out each page separately, but it comes out real clear. Good luck!!

08-30-2011, 12:34 PM

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Janice, That is a treasure we will value very much! Thank you so much for sharing your terrific find!!! I owe you one!

08-30-2011, 12:39 PM

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Wow, this is gorgeous. Why can't I have an aunt or grandparent like that????

We ALWAYS knew we were lucky when it came to that!

08-30-2011, 12:42 PM

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Jacquie thank you for your really helpful link. I'm going over to take a look at your two new buddies and read the posts, My SIL already did and watched the Youtube links you provided. Thanks!