Part 13 (2/2)

The true Bartholf machine evolved when theshuttle for the rotary shuttle of the Blodgett & Lerowto manufacture the machine in his own adapted style Bartholf -shuttle machines as early as 1853, and his was one of the first companies licensed by Howe

All Bartholf machines licensed under Howe's patent carry the Howe name and patent date They are sometimes mistakenly referred to as Howe machines, but they are no more Howe er, or ranted a patent for an improvement of the shuttle carrier He continued toMachine Co” until about 1865

Using serial numbers, Bartholf machines can be dated approximately as follows:

_Serial Number_ _Year_

1-20 1850 21-501851 51-100 1852 101-235 1853 236-290 1854 291-321 1855 322-356 1856 357-387 1857 388-590 1858 591-1337 1859

No record of the number of machines produced by Bartholf after 1859 is available

The Bartholf machine illustrated bears the serial number 128 and the inscription ”A Bartholf Manfr, NY--Patented Sept 1846 E Howe, Jr”

This machine is in the collection of the Baltimore County Historical Society Note the close siett & Lerow machine manufactured by Bartholf (_Photo courtesy of the Baltiure 73--BARTLETT SEWING MACHINE, 1867 The Bartlett machine was first manufactured in 1866 under the January 31, 1865, and October 10, 1865, patents of Joseph W Bartlett The machines were made by Goodspeed & Wyman for the Bartlett Co and were so marked The inventor received another patent on April 7, 1868, and later h the first few hundred machines did not bear the dates of patents held by the ”Combination,” before the end of the first year of production Bartlett was paying royalties He continued tomachines until the early seventies when he converted to theserial numbers, Bartlett's machines can be dated approximately as follows: 1-1000, 1866; 1001-3126, 1867; 3127-?, 1868 There is no record of serial nu years (Sure 74--BARTRAM & FANTON SEWING MACHINE, 1867 These machines were first manufactured in 1867 under the patents of W B

Bartram, notably his patent of January 1, 1867 Three machines were exhibited at The Eleventh Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics association in 1869 where they were awarded a bronze medal

They were co

39), which they resembled Bartram received additional patents in the early seventies and alsoserial numbers, machines may be approximately dated as follows: 1-2958, 1867; 2959-3958, 1868; 3959-4958, 1869; 4959-5958, 1870; 5959-6962, 1871; 6963-7961, 1872; 7962-8961, 1873; and 8962-9211, 1874

(Sure 75--BECKWITH SEWING MACHINE, 1871 A the inventors whose patent clai machine” was William G Beckwith His machine was first manufactured by Barlow & Son, and it realized considerable success in the few years of its production The earliest model was operated like a pair of scissors or with a cord and ring as illustrated Beckwith later added a hand crank The land; it is stan Pats Secured, Barlow & Son Manuf NY, [serial number] 706” By 1874 the machines were marked ”Beckwith SM Co” and two 1872 patent dates were added

Using serial numbers, machines may be dated approximately as follows: 1-3500, 1871; 3501-7500, 1872; 7501-12500, 1873; 12501-18000, 1874; 18001-23000, 1875; 23001-?, 1876 (Sure 76--BOUDOIR SEWING MACHINE, 1858 This le-thread, chainstitch model was based on the patents of Daniel Harris, dated June 9, 1857, June 16, 1857, and October 5, 1858

Manufactured prio in 1859, it also h no manufacturer's name can be found

In 1860, the Boudoir, also called Harris's Patent sewing machine, was exhibited at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics association Exhibition where it won a silver medal for ”its coether with its ease of operation” At this ti a ”double lock stitch” (another name for the double chainstitch) It was also described as having been before the public for so ”the improvements of others for which the parties pay license” The machine head was positioned on the stand si

127) and stitched froht

It is not known exactly how ue Manufacture, although probably ceasing in the 1860s, is known to have been discontinued before 1881, when a list of obsolete sewingMachine News_ (Sure 77--(NEW) BUCKEYE SEWING MACHINE of about 1875

The Buckeye machine was one of several manufactured by W G Wilson of Cleveland, Ohio It was licensed under Johnson's extended patent of April 18, 1867 Although it was small and hand turned, it used two threads and a shuttle to form a lockstitch The machine was sufficiently popular for Wilson to introduce an improved model in the early 1870s, which he called the New Buckeye W G Wilson continued to hties, although the Buckeye machines were discontinued in the seventies (Sure 78--CENTENNIAL SEWING MACHINE, 1876 The CentennialCentennial celebration It was based on the patents of J N McLean, March 30, 1869, and August 2, 1870, and made a two-thread chainstitch Only about five hundred Centennial machines were manufactured in 1873, but by 1876 over three thousand had been constructed The machines were advertised on white circulars which were printed in red and blue, and engraved with to in 1776,” and one at a Centennial sewingin 1876” There is no record that the machines were made after 1876 (Sure 79--CLARK'S Revolving-Looper double-thread sewing machine, 1860 This machine was manufactured by Lamson, Goodnow, & Yale of Windsor, Vermont It was an attempt to improve on the combined ideas of the Grover and Baker le-thread Windsor machine The improvements were made and patented by Edwin Clark on December 6, 1859 Widely advertised, the machines sold for 35 with a foot-power table They could also be operated by hand Over three thousand werele-thread Windsor, originally made by the company's predecessor, Vermont Arms Co, when the Civil War broke out A flood of ar-machine manufacture was discontinued early in the su-machine equipment and business was sold to Grout & White of Massachusetts (Sure 80--DU LANEY SEWING MACHINE of about 1872 Most of the s machines of this period were constructed so that they could either be turned by hand or set into a treadle-powered table Du Laney's Little Monitor, manufactured for only a few years, was based on the patents of GL Du Laney, July 3, 1866, and May 2, 1871 It was a two-thread, chainstitch machine powered only by a foot treadle By simple adjustment, the machine could also make the cablestitch and the lockstitch (Sure 81--EUREKA SEWING MACHINE, 1859 An example of the many short-lived types of which no written record can be found, this particular machine was used as a patent model for certain minor improvements in 1859 It has the na inscription incised on the baster plate: ”Eureka Shuttle S M Co 469 Broadway, NY” Although it is a shuttle machine, it carries no patent dates and was not included in the Howe royalty records Neither is it listed in the obsolescence list published in 1881 The company probably could not pay its royalty fees and was forced out of business almost immediately If this machine had not been used as a patent ht remain It should be noted that as in most shuttle machines the head was meant to be set into a treadle-powered table Since most tables are very similar, they are not required for identification (Sure 82--M FINKLE SEWING MACHINE, 1857 The M Finkle machines were manufactured in 1856 and 1857 Sometime before or about 1859, the inventor, Milton Finkle, formed a partnershi+p and the machines were subsequently called M Finkle & Lyon and later simply Finkle & Lyon In 1859 the machine arded a silversuperiormachines It also won a silver medal in Boston in 1860 at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics association Exhibition Although the naed to Victor in 1867, the company naed to Victor also Victor machines were manufactured until about 1890

Machines can be dated by their serial number approximately as follows:

_Serial Number_ _Year_