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    Quote Originally Posted by lourixe View Post
    This looks like another amazing forum! Many thanks! I'm going to learn a lot. I'm spending the evening with some friends: one is a vintage car freak (he is restauring two that are older than me!). I might get advice as to lubricants, metal polishers, etc.
    if you join and post pics on that forum they will all chime in and tell you anything you want to know about that machine. someone even did tutes on how to restore them and what products to use and which to avoid. They love hand cranks over there. Good luck, you will get addicted to these things.
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    It's been very helpful.

    Knowing this machine had come from America to Northern Spain in the middle 20es led me to think it might have come along the anthropologist Ruth Mathilda Anderson, who took wonderful pictures of everyday life for the Hispanic American Society.

    Veva could have been a fellow traveler of these ladies, also carried on the head or shoulder of her owner:


    My grandmother didn't sew as her sisters in law, she was the family's weaver. She would have looked pretty much like this one, working at linen bedsheet or seed sacks from their own grown flax:
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    You should post your pix here too: http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...thusiasts-f22/ they would LOVE to see them too...
    your Y-1923923 is probably a model 15k 'born' 1921 -- I got that info here:
    Y Serial Numbers - Comprehensive Singer Sewing Machine Serial Number Database

    I love these old girls!

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    Hello from Spain
    she already posted over there and has gotten lots of help
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    Yes you can get replacement parts.. Just post at the link above... quilting board.
    You will need to replace the bobbin winder. There should be a belt for a pedal machine if you find a good cabinet with the iron legs, petal plate and wheel. On the back side of your machine, there should be a plate covering and that is where an electric motor can be installed. That era of sewing machines were sold all over the world and needed to work with or without power.

    I have a vintage machine, circa 1901. It is in good working order and I have been able to sew a seam or two with it. Read all about my find HERE

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    Quote Originally Posted by jingleme View Post
    You should post your pix here too: http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...thusiasts-f22/ they would LOVE to see them too...
    your Y-1923923 is probably a model 15k 'born' 1921 -- I got that info here:
    Y Serial Numbers - Comprehensive Singer Sewing Machine Serial Number Database

    I love these old girls!
    Another lover of these old girls sees this:
    Y- 1918801 1933800 28K 15000 May 7 1924
    Be warned. I am BORED.
    This could be dangerous.

    When you get cold just go stand in the corner.
    They are usually 90 degrees.

    A giraffe's coffee would be cold by the time it reached the bottom of his throat.
    Ever think about that? No? You only think about yourself??

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    Thanks to all: the machine seems to be a Singer 28K. This is the thread I opened about it in the other forum. It has been very helpful. Now I must do some shopping for chemicals to have it cleaned and parts, specially new bobbins and a bobbind winder to replace the missing one.
    There was another vintage machine at home, a treadle from another great-aunt. My mother lent it to a community center, but last news were they didn't use it anymore. Maybe I can get it back. My mother liked it better because it used regular bobbins instead of the long ones, but my aunt says it didn't sew so well as the one I already have. So I might shift the 28K to the cabinet, if I can manage to recover it.

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    I love the antique machines! I do all of my sewing on 1930 Singer handcrank . It is a model 99. I have even sewn leather without any problems.
    I also have a 1933 Frister and Rossman handcrank, it is a German machine with a shuttle bobbin. It also sews great and I have made a few quilts on it.
    I also have two antique electric machines: 1952 model 128 Singer, with the vibrating shuttle. It has the black matt finish. And I have 1957 Singer Featherweight, it was my Mother in law's.
    I just got great grandma's 1934 Singer model 15 treadle. I have to put a new belt on it and it will be ready to sew!
    All my machines have the original instruction manuals and work great.
    I hope you enjoy your old machine!
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    Vintage/antique machines are so funly wonderful. I too enjoy them, lourixe, and am glad you posted about yours. I'm reading over the responses now but it does not appear that you've named him/her? If so, what did you come up with?


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    Oh QuiltingRN, would you consider posting a pic of yours? I have one also. It is the first hand crank I have used so I can't compare but I love it. Yes, I heard it can do leather. How cool is that?

    I am wondering though, seriously, what is it like to sew a quilt on a hand crank? I am truly not looking forward to it which is why I am pushing myself to actually use my treadle. Being new to quilting I am thinking I'll need both hands to deal with the fabric versus turning the crank.

    Quote Originally Posted by QuiltingRN View Post
    I love the antique machines! I do all of my sewing on 1930 Singer handcrank . It is a model 99. I have even sewn leather without any problems.
    I also have a 1933 Frister and Rossman handcrank, it is a German machine with a shuttle bobbin. It also sews great and I have made a few quilts on it.
    I also have two antique electric machines: 1952 model 128 Singer, with the vibrating shuttle. It has the black matt finish. And I have 1957 Singer Featherweight, it was my Mother in law's.
    I just got great grandma's 1934 Singer model 15 treadle. I have to put a new belt on it and it will be ready to sew!
    All my machines have the original instruction manuals and work great.
    I hope you enjoy your old machine!


    http://www.sewlyricallyvintage.wordpress.com

    "Being a great quilter is 5% talent and 95% pushing yourself away from the internet!" ~ Angel Bear

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