Where can I find information on a Cottage treadle sewing machine. I have looked everywhere. The only number I can find is 60044. It is not a new Cottage. Please help.
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Your machine is a very obscure name but most likely made by another company that made machines for stores and placed any name the store put in the contract.
Sears is probably the best known company that bought brand name machines but used their own names - Kenmore is well known name - but Kenmore (or Sears) did not make these machines and the brand name company could change yearly.
Company history:
"Most Davis made machines were 'stenciled' models manufactured and labeled for retail outlets, catalog houses, and mail order companies. The Davis company supplied most Minnesota brand sewing machines sold by Sears Roebuck & Co. from 1900 through 1912."
I have not been able to positively find the original brand/company that made your Cottage machine but many people are leaning toward it being made by the Davis Sewing machine Company but I have not been able to find the name 'Cottage' on any site that has information about the Davis Company.
I did find a site that has a list of all machine names that Davis made and Cottage is not on that list.Scroll to the bottom.
www.fiddlebase.com/
You do not show pictures of your full machine and a lot of information can be gained from the style/type of treadle so this makes identifying even more difficult.
This site shows a lot of Davis machines and one machine looks very similar to yours: Page 2 - middle of page - named: Davis Hummingbird.
This is a very, very slow loading page/site.
You may be able to ask questions about your machine on one of these sites:
ismacs.net/
www.quiltingboard.com/
www.fiddlebase.com/
Hopefully, another member will be able to provide more information.
Sorry, but I just found time for your question. It is strange that some people consider your sewing machine to be made by The Davis Sewing Machine Company. Sewing machines from this company even look different.
Your sewing machine is manufactured by the NATIONAL Sewing Machine Company.
The National Sewing Machine Company was one of the few early sewing machine companies to have a factory outside of New England. The company was based in Belvidere, Illinois, where it produced sewing machines, bicycles, washing machines and other items and employed hundreds of skilled workers.
"Barnabas Eldredge was an industrialist connected with the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, a firearms manufacturer that also produced sewing machines with Eldredge. Ames sold off its sewing machine dies and equipment to Eldredge, who went to Chicago. There he joined forces with the existing June Manufacturing Company, founded in 1879 by F. T. June.
This company produced dozens of different National sewing machine models over the years, some with the National name (Model A, Rotary B, Rotary 110, Rotary 1120, Eldredge and other) and some for other brands (Velox, Harris, Detroit, Texas Advocate, New Home, Montgomery Ward, General Electric).
Most National brand sewing machines sell for about $100-500. The price depends on condition (if all its parts of the machine in working condition, if exist paint loss, damage), rarity (certain models are more desirable because there are fewer of them on the market for examples the oldest models made by Eldredge) and if the sewing machine has its original cabinet.
I have only seen New Cottage. Hopefully this article will help you identify your machine. antiques.lovetoknow.com/
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Here's some info that may help w/ your machine:
ismacs.net/
I couldn't find anything on this either! Hmmm... Upon my research for the past half hour, the only thing I could find was that it's made by a company named Davis.
This is a special machine and requires a professional answer, - www.justanswer.com/
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I have a cottage treadle similar to the photo below, wondering about its history and thought the BB plate might indicate the manufacturer?
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