Leader Sewing Machine
Appearance
The Leader Sewing Machine Company produced sewing machines from 1870 to 1899 or there about.[1]
Later overlockers were made under that brand though they may have been made at a different company to the first one. At least some of the overlockers including a 4 thread model (DC-647) were shipped from China.
The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleaveland, Ohio [2] and 1115 Olive Street, St Louis, Montana USA on some 1884 and other Victorian trade cards and 1885 envelopes traded on eBay.
The A. G. Mason Manufacturing Company manufactured a sewing machine designated the "Leader" amongst others in their line up of Florence, Crown and New Century, there is no known connection to the Leader Sewing Machine Company.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Sewing machines". Historical trade literature in the Smithsonian Collection. Leader Sewing Machine Company. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Best, David. "A-Z of American Sewing Machine Manufacturers". Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ "Leader sewing machine made by the A. G. Mason Manufacturing Company". The Treadlers Village. Retrieved 24 September 2011.