Need help identifying a Morse machine
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Need help identifying a Morse machine
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In my line I've found people throw out the most useful and valuable items and I find myself driving around looking for such items the night before bulk trash pickup. The other night I went to purchase an antique roll top desk and when leaving the neighborhood I found, among other things, an old Morse sewing machine. Underneath the main base stamped into the metal are three sets of numbers. A JA number a JC number and what I believe to be the serial number. However I cannot find much on when it was made and by extension whether it's worth repairing even for personal use. Can anyone please help or point me in the correct direction? Thanks in advance.
And it seems I cannot figure out how to add pictures to this thread either so that may be of use as well.
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Jarred
#3
Someone more knowledgeable than I am should be along shortly to help with what you're asking!
Welcome to the Quilting Board.
An alternative source of information is the Victorian Sweat Shop forum, it's all about vintage machines. Good luck!
Welcome to the Quilting Board.
An alternative source of information is the Victorian Sweat Shop forum, it's all about vintage machines. Good luck!
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Welcome. Glad you figured out how to post pictures. I couldn't blow the pictures up so that I could tell some of the details.. It says they can be larger, but most have found that it doesn't work. The instructions on how to post can be found at Including Images and Attachments (as of 24 Jan 2020) or https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
In case you just skim the pdf, a couple of things that I believe are particularly note worthy are that one must scroll over to the far right to find the "Upload" button to click and that I believe the picture maximum size may be incorrect, I think that the pictures need to be smaller than 1.9MB. Another thing that I noticed is that one can choose up to five images (if so desired) before clicking the "Upload" button. I also found that if you want to insert the image somewhere actually within the post, it takes a while for it to show the images that are available to choose (by clicking on the (paper clip icon) then you can click on which one you want and where.
There is a list of JA & JC numbers and manufacturers of said numbers at http://www.doubleveil.net/zssmp/resources.htm
It starts about 2/3rd the way down the page.
I didn't see Morse as being one of the badges for those numbers. I don't have a Morse badged machine, but I have read many good reports for them. From what I can see in your pictures, it appears that there isn't a nose plate or top. Did you take them off to take the pictures?
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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In case you just skim the pdf, a couple of things that I believe are particularly note worthy are that one must scroll over to the far right to find the "Upload" button to click and that I believe the picture maximum size may be incorrect, I think that the pictures need to be smaller than 1.9MB. Another thing that I noticed is that one can choose up to five images (if so desired) before clicking the "Upload" button. I also found that if you want to insert the image somewhere actually within the post, it takes a while for it to show the images that are available to choose (by clicking on the (paper clip icon) then you can click on which one you want and where.
There is a list of JA & JC numbers and manufacturers of said numbers at http://www.doubleveil.net/zssmp/resources.htm
It starts about 2/3rd the way down the page.
I didn't see Morse as being one of the badges for those numbers. I don't have a Morse badged machine, but I have read many good reports for them. From what I can see in your pictures, it appears that there isn't a nose plate or top. Did you take them off to take the pictures?
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Not affiliated with off-site link(s)