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Dating no. 8 treadle

Brenda Garrett #2460 My W&W no. 8 is finally up amd sewing. Now trying to figure out what year it was possibly made. Serial number 83727 dates of 1872, 73, and 76. Unable to find anything on the 8, so any help would be appreciated.? Thanks?
Miller Fulks All Messages By This Member #2461 Hi Brenda; The W&W #8 was produced from approximately 1878 to 1889. Unfortunately we have no SN records of them as we do on Singer machines. I have copies of a couple of Bill of sales that help narrow it a bit. Problem here of course is we don't know how long a period existed from them leaving the factory until they were actually sold at retail. First one is SN 327,542 & is simply dated 1883 2nd one is SN 509,994 & is dated Sept 15 1885. Your 5-digit SN is obviously much earlier than either of these. Also most #8 machines will be found with a patent date of Aug 27, 1878 on them. They may well have already had a good number of plates made up prior to the issuance of the 1878 patents (two in fact on the same day) so we can't really say it was made prior to that patent date. My best guess though is it was made no later than 1879. Miller/TN
mama_bea1968 #2468 开云体育 Hi Miller, that makes sense. Thank you for the info? Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S? 5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone toggle quoted message Show quoted text -------- Original message -------- From: Miller Fulks <mmf38@...> Date: 7/31/2016 9:35 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Wheeler_and_Wilson-Sewing-Machines] Dating no. 8 treadle Hi Brenda; The W&W #8 was produced from approximately 1878 to 1889. Unfortunately we have no SN records of them as we do on Singer machines. I have copies of a couple of Bill of sales that help narrow it a bit. Problem here of course is we don't know how long a period existed from them leaving the factory until they were actually sold at retail. First one is SN 327,542 & is simply dated 1883 2nd one is SN 509,994 & is dated Sept 15 1885. Your 5-digit SN is obviously much earlier than either of these. Also most #8 machines will be found with a patent date of Aug 27, 1878 on them. They may well have already had a good number of plates made up prior to the issuance of the 1878 patents (two in fact on the same day) so we can't really say it was made prior to that patent date. My best guess though is it was made no later than 1879. Miller/TN

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