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Information on Cottage Sewing Machine?

An old Cottage sewing machine.Where can I find information on a Cottage treadle sewing machine. I have looked everywhere. The only number I can find is 60044. It is not a new Cottage. Please help.

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The base of an old Cottage sewing machine.
 

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April 12, 20210 found this helpful
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Your machine is a very obscure name but most likely made by another company that made machines for stores and placed any name the store put in the contract.
Sears is probably the best known company that bought brand name machines but used their own names - Kenmore is well known name - but Kenmore (or Sears) did not make these machines and the brand name company could change yearly.
Company history:
"Most Davis made machines were 'stenciled' models manufactured and labeled for retail outlets, catalog houses, and mail order companies. The Davis company supplied most Minnesota brand sewing machines sold by Sears Roebuck & Co. from 1900 through 1912."

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I have not been able to positively find the original brand/company that made your Cottage machine but many people are leaning toward it being made by the Davis Sewing machine Company but I have not been able to find the name 'Cottage' on any site that has information about the Davis Company.
I did find a site that has a list of all machine names that Davis made and Cottage is not on that list.Scroll to the bottom.
www.fiddlebase.com/.../

You do not show pictures of your full machine and a lot of information can be gained from the style/type of treadle so this makes identifying even more difficult.
This site shows a lot of Davis machines and one machine looks very similar to yours: Page 2 - middle of page - named: Davis Hummingbird.
This is a very, very slow loading page/site.

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You may be able to ask questions about your machine on one of these sites:
ismacs.net/digest.html
www.quiltingboard.com/.../
www.fiddlebase.com/.../

Hopefully, another member will be able to provide more information.

 

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April 30, 20212 found this helpful
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Sorry, but I just found time for your question. It is strange that some people consider your sewing machine to be made by The Davis Sewing Machine Company. Sewing machines from this company even look different.

Your sewing machine is manufactured by the NATIONAL Sewing Machine Company.

The National Sewing Machine Company was one of the few early sewing machine companies to have a factory outside of New England. The company was based in Belvidere, Illinois, where it produced sewing machines, bicycles, washing machines and other items and employed hundreds of skilled workers.

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This company was formed in 1890 by the merger of the Eldredge Sewing Machine Company (est. 1869) and the June Manufacturing Company (est. 1881).
The National Sewing Machine Company appears to have specialized in producing badged machines for retailers. In 1953 it merged with Free Sewing Machine Co. but was unable to compete with imported models and the National Sewing Machine Company closed in 1957.

"Barnabas Eldredge was an industrialist connected with the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, a firearms manufacturer that also produced sewing machines with Eldredge. Ames sold off its sewing machine dies and equipment to Eldredge, who went to Chicago. There he joined forces with the existing June Manufacturing Company, founded in 1879 by F. T. June.

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Eldredge took over the company in 1890 on the death of June, renaming it National Sewing Machine.
Eldredge led the company until his death in 1911. He was succeeded by David Patton.
National Sewing Machine Company and Farm Mechanics magazine partnered up, with the magazine offering Vindex toys as incentives to children to sell magazine subscriptions.
In 1953 National merged with the Free Sewing Machine Company but was unable to compete with the imported Japanese sewing machine models and the National Sewing Machine Company closed in 1957" en.wikipedia.org/.../National_Sewing_Machine_Company

This company produced dozens of different National sewing machine models over the years, some with the National name (Model A, Rotary B, Rotary 110, Rotary 1120, Eldredge and other) and some for other brands (Velox, Harris, Detroit, Texas Advocate, New Home, Montgomery Ward, General Electric).

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Here you can see names used on Sewing Machines of The National Sewing Machine Company: needlebar.org/.../index.html There ia and the name Cottage too.
Here is the same sewing machine as yours (see attached screenshot): www.bonanza.com/.../National-Cottage-Vibrating-Shuttle...

Most National brand sewing machines sell for about $100-500. The price depends on condition (if all its parts of the machine in working condition, if exist paint loss, damage), rarity (certain models are more desirable because there are fewer of them on the market for examples the oldest models made by Eldredge) and if the sewing machine has its original cabinet.

 
 

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April 11, 20210 found this helpful

I have only seen New Cottage. Hopefully this article will help you identify your machine. antiques.lovetoknow.com/Domestic_Treadle_Sewing_Machine

 
Anonymous
April 12, 20210 found this helpful

thank you

 
Anonymous
April 12, 20210 found this helpful

thank you

 

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April 11, 20211 found this helpful

Here's some info that may help w/ your machine:
ismacs.net/.../history_repeats_itself_story_of_the_davis_sewing_machine_company...

 
April 11, 20211 found this helpful

I couldn't find anything on this either! Hmmm... Upon my research for the past half hour, the only thing I could find was that it's made by a company named Davis.

 

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April 12, 20211 found this helpful

This is a special machine and requires a professional answer, - www.justanswer.com/.../c4cos-value-new-cottage-treadle-sewing... - also some history of machine can be given for future use/help.

 
Anonymous
April 12, 20210 found this helpful

thank you

 
Anonymous
March 9, 20230 found this helpful

I have a cottage treadle similar to the photo below, wondering about its history and thought the BB plate might indicate the manufacturer?

 

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