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    Posted 12 years ago

    Mrj303
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    Has a table too but it's so beat up I didn't include a picture! I don't know if it works either. I've seen Singer machines, but never this brand. Any idea of a year? THANKS!

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    1. Nancy Salisbury, 12 years ago
      I have an older Montgomery Wards machine that is a 3/4 size machine in a carrying case and it is not quite as old as this one . Mine is electric with a shuttle bobbin . If I remember right I think that the M/W machines were made by the National sewing machine company for M/W . It has been a while since I even looked at my machine . I think that I have the date mine was made somewhere and I will have to look at my machine to be sure of who manufactured it . I will look tomorrow and let you know for sure .
    2. Bernadette Bernadette, 12 years ago
      yes it's a National Rotary.
    3. Mrj303 Mrj303, 12 years ago
      Do you think this could sew leather?
    4. Nancy Salisbury, 12 years ago
      Mrj303 : Sorry I have not gotten back to you before now . I have been really busy . I still have not had the time to look at my M/W machine . As to sewing leather with your machine . That would depend on how thick of leather you want to sew . However the above machine was not built to sew leather on a daily bases . It is a machine made for home use . I am sure it would sew thin leather , but not the thicker stuff . I do sew leather on my treadle once in a while . It will do it , but if done every day the machine will give out much faster .
    5. Mrj303 Mrj303, 12 years ago
      Thank you Nancy!
    6. keramikos, 11 months ago
      Just a bit of back-filling. :-)

      The closest MW-badged National VSM looks to me like the circa 1948 R41 non-electric rotary:

      http://www.needlebar.org/main/national/index2.html

      Per Zorba, the crinkle brown finish AKA "Brown Art Metal Finish" dates back to 1938 as an experiment, and became standard after WWII as a cost-cutting strategy:

      https://www.doubleveil.net/zssmp/reversew.htm

      In fact, it shows up as early as 1941 in an old Montogomery Ward catalog (Head no. 2 and Head no. 3 at the bottom of page 773 are described as having a "Special Dull Finish brown art metal"):

      https://archive.org/details/montgomerywardcatalogfallwinter1941/page/n778/mode/1up

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