CanSew Auction part 3

White Rotary in parlour cabinet:

Wheeler and Wilson treadle....Has one bobbin. Little upper drawers are missing. Stirrup treadle pedal. Lovely graining in the cabinet. Ca late 1860s or early 1870s.

Haid and Neu treadle. Oak mission style cabinet, leather covered treadle pedal, attachments and bobbins.

Auction items Part 2

More auction items:

Wanzer oil bottle:

Singer pinker with box:


Singer 99 hand crank:

Singer 99 hand crank case:

Singer 24 hand crank:





Singer 24 hand crank case:

quart oil can:

Lawlor:



Ideal darner:

Singer oval oil can:

CanSew Auction

Here are some of the items for the auction on Saturday. They are in no particular order :-). Click on the photo for a larger view.

Singer 12 hand crank:

Another Singer 12 hand crank:




Straco toy:


Straco ElectrOmatic:

Sewette:

Puzzle box:
Puzzle box open:
Putnam yardage estimator:

Pickens guides and books:

books with the Pickens guides:

Pickens guide closeup:

National (?) hand crank:

National (?) hand crank bed closeup:

Straco Little Betty:

Box for above Little Betty:

Lindstrom toy:
Close up of name:

Guhl and Harbeck back:

Guhl and Harbeck front:

Florence head only (back):

Florence head:

Davis vertical feed head in handmade wooden box:

Metallic blue Casige:

ca 1860s Wheeler and Wilson Treadle (Includes bobbin)

Haid & Nau Treadle in Mission Style Cabinet, leather covered treadle pedal

White Rotary treadle in cherry parlour cabinet (need to check date)

I will add more photos when I receive them. Pictures of above three machines up on part 3.

10th ANNIVERSARY GATHERING

Hi all:

The 10th Anniversary gathering will be held at Black Creek Pioneer Village, on Saturday, July 17th, 2010. Here are some of the highlights of the gathering:

*BCPV staff will set up some special displays from their collection for us.

*Wear a vintage costume and enter the competition for a prize

*Speaker Harry Burzack from Charlotte, NC

*Auction with Bob Bannen returning as auctioneer! We already have two handcrank Singer model 12 sewing machines for the auction!

*sit down lunch

*Marty Eckmann Brent will be speaking on the sewing machine manufacturing industry of Ontario from 1860 to 1897

*Quilt show of block exchange and challenge projects made by our members over the 10 year history of Can Sew

*Door prizes

*fun and fellowship with kindred spirits!

To view the brochure which includes the registration form, visit:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanSew/

The brochure is posted in the files on this group. Deadline for registration is June 15th, 2010. For more information email at the link on the side bar. Hope to see lots of early members there!!

*If you are not on the yahoo group, email me for a .doc attachment via email.

CanSew Fall Gathering

The Fall Gathering will be held in Tillsonburg on October 3, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. More details will be posted soon!

Abbot sewing machine

The Abbot sewing machine was made in St. Catharines, ON. This machine is from the collection of Jake and Jacqui Van Meppelen-Scheppink. Serial number is 2265. This machine was purchased at Christie's antique show in Dundas, ON several years ago and was covered in red paint. It did clean up quite nicely, but has no decals left at all.


Handcrank on the machine:

Front view of the machine:

This is Jennifer Hill's Abbot machine and has the serial number 4651.

Fairly nice decals on Jennifer's machine:


Here is a photo of the newest Abbott that Diane has acquired. She writes: "The Abbott has had an alteration to the tension, I am sure of that but otherwise original and has good decals. It has the engraved name of W. A. White & Co. Toronto on the stitch plate."


This photo is a Queens Elliptic (on left) and Abbott (on right) comparison photo. They appear to be from a very similar if not the same patent although I believe the Queens Elliptic may be a little older then the Abbott and has a simpler tension arrangement

If you own an Abbot machine, please send photos and they can be added to this post.