What constitutes a vintage sewing machine?
05-03-2014, 04:22 AM
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I go with antiques being 100 years old or more, and with vintage, I am pretty flexible as to the age, and sometimes just use 19XX's Vintage in the title or description.
I wouldn't use retro, as that usually means something newly created that tries to look like something from the past.
Of course, most people these days follow no such conventions, and freely misuse such descriptors, in the same way they misuse industrial and heavy duty.
I wouldn't use retro, as that usually means something newly created that tries to look like something from the past.
Of course, most people these days follow no such conventions, and freely misuse such descriptors, in the same way they misuse industrial and heavy duty.
05-03-2014, 12:34 PM
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Anastasia, antiques are 100+ years, because it's a fact. Well, it was a fact: I was taught it and so were some older people I asked but now Wikipedia has a weaker version "It is common practice to define "antique" as applying to objects at least 100 years old.". This doesn't stop eBayers listing anything from the '40s or '50s (even '60s) as antique (grr!).
Vintage is a different story, and there are a lot of people who consider 30 or even 20 years to be vintage! If you list something on Etsy, they list anything more than 20 years old as vintage
Only machine I touched from the 1970s was a Bernina 830 record. Fantastic machine, but not really any better than my 1950s 530-2 record. The older one has no plastic at all so it was much easier to fall for, not to mention that it was free.
Vintage is a different story, and there are a lot of people who consider 30 or even 20 years to be vintage! If you list something on Etsy, they list anything more than 20 years old as vintage
Only machine I touched from the 1970s was a Bernina 830 record. Fantastic machine, but not really any better than my 1950s 530-2 record. The older one has no plastic at all so it was much easier to fall for, not to mention that it was free.
05-04-2014, 06:02 AM
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My grandfather put the connection "hole" through the leather belt for my grandmother's treadle with the point of his knife, point down toward his other hand. The blood was significant as was the swearing.
Don't do it that way.
To this day, I do not know what gave him the brain blank. He was the head rigger in a large shipyard that specialized in Great Lakes ships and should have known way better.
Don't do it that way.
To this day, I do not know what gave him the brain blank. He was the head rigger in a large shipyard that specialized in Great Lakes ships and should have known way better.
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