Subject: Any interest in this antique "sewing machine"?

From: [email-masked] (George Dixon)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:34:21 -0400

Greetings List-Folk, here is a forward, respond to [email-masked]
if you have any questions or unfulfilled sewing machine
desires.........George Dixon

>Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 09:20:52 -0300
>From: Chris Mudgett <[email-masked]>

>Subject: Any interest in this antique "sewing machine"?
>X-URL: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/edu/arts/blacksmithing/ABANA/join/join.html
>
>Dear ABANA Sysop,
>
>I have a piece of antique "machinery" that someone in your organization might
>be interested in.
>
>I live on a property in central Massachusetts that was built in the very
>early 1800s. There was a blacksmith shop on the property at one time,
>although the structure is gone. We find small metal pieces all over the
>place.  2 years ago when we dismantled our post-and-beam chestnut barn to
>rebuild it, we removed what appears to be a leather stitching machine.
>
>Perhaps the blacksmith operation included saddle or bridle repairs. The
>"sewing machine" is about 6 feet tall, quite heavy (although my husband was
>able to drag it out), and has a 10 foot long drive shaft of some sort. The
>drive shaft is sitting in our back yard.
>
>We don't want to keep this "sewing machine" but we'd like to find someone who
>preserves such things.
>
>Can you advise me as to whether your members might be interested in this, or
>any other ideas you might have?
>
>Thanks much for your time.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris Mudgett