Yet another copy of the very successful Wheeler and Wilson 9 design with a few modifications, this beautiful German Adler is extremely well made and very heavy. It has a lovely Art Nouveau influenced design and came complete with its amazingly decorative wooden Dome.
Kochs Adler were based in Bielefeld and continued making sewing machines up until the 1970’s
Cheers Rob and Lynne
One of our better finds which currently resides in the bedroom :-) Her serial number is 2846171 which dates her to around 1908. The decals and woodwork are all in lovely condition and she came with a complete set of Boxed parts and manual. The Centre Bed decal was also featured on one of their Trade cards.
New Home was bought out in 1957 by the Japanese Janome Corporation.
Cheers Rob and Lynne
Hi All
I can officially say that I finished and wore my socks for Mother's Day :-)) and yes I have started the next pair. They are a great portable project.
The Boys took me out for breakfast for Mother’s Day and it was lovely.
Have finished my Jumper and just need to sew it up. After all that lovely rain last night and with the weather starting to come in cooler I can smell winter my favourite time of the year.
It is a big day today as Rowan is 18 - a milestone! 6 foot 2 inches and he looks a striking young man. Needless to say he towers over both Rob and I!
I cooked them Baked Beans in the Crock pot overnight so they woke up to a nice hot breakfast. there is nothing like your own homemade Baked Beans. It was well appreciated.
Hopefully I will get some sewing done this week as those Nearly Insane blocks are now a week behind. There is only so much time in the day.
Rob is away in Tasmania til tomorrow and I am feeling very pleased with myself as I managed to win for him a “LITTLE BABY” Toy sewing machine with its case. Stay Tune for photos. I know as soon as it arrives he will pull it all to pieces, polish it and put it back together again! Now if only I can stop him long enough to take before photos. It is always amazing the transformation after he has cleaned and polished a machine and it never ceases to amaze me.
Thought you might like to see a photo of the Decal on the bed of our New Home Treadle Sewing Machine. Amazing how much was fitted into one photo.
Cheers Lynne
The Wheeler and Wilson Model D-9 Dates from around 1900 and was obviously a very successful design as it was copied by many companies.
These machines did not have decals on the beds which was one way of overcoming them wearing off ;-)
This particular base is the short-version making it a fairly light and compact machine. The longer version was about 3 inches (7.5cm longer)
It seems that Wheeler and Wilson were never quite happy with the handcrank design as I have seen at least 4 different versions.
Cheers Rob and Lynne
