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tgiddens06
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I bought this Tacony Dial-N-Sew at a yard sale and instantly fell in love with it. It still works and has the original foot petal. It looks like it has barely ever been used. The only problem is I cannot find any information on it whatsoever. Any insight would be helpful!
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I have never hear of a Tacony Dial-N-Sew . However it appears to be the type of machine that could have been made in Japan . Have you looked under the bed of the machine along the front edge ? It could have some information there or on the underside of the machine itself .
It has a serial number but thats it... I believe it was made in Japan, but thats all I know, sadly.
Some machines made in Japan are very fine machines . Don't worry about it just enjoy it .
I have no doubts in the quality. It is made of very heavy metal and even after all this time all of the parts are still attached with none broken.. It is so beautiful to me, I just wish I had a story to it...
I got this msg back from Tacony :)
Thank you for contacting us. We have had many request’s for the Dial n Sew machine, and if that is what your’s is, we do not have anything for that machine any more. We did in fact distribute it years ago.. but so long ago, we no longer have access to the manufacturer.
If you can scan a picture of it, I’ll be glad to forward it to the person that would be able to identify it.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Ruesing
Tacony Product Support
As you have discovered, Tacony was a retailer who bought this machine from a wholesaler and added their own name. This was (and is) a very common practice known as badging. The retailer may have changed suppliers several times over their period of selling and knowing the maker of one "Tacony" won't help with another one unless they're identical. There may be clues to the maker under the machine - are there any letters or numbers stamped into the base?
Hi I am commenting on the above picture of the sewing machine it looks like an old dressmaker mark II 752 sewing machine.do you know where i might be able to find one. thanks
I still have it :)