A Beautiful Machine
On Wednesday I spotted a beautiful vintage sewing machine on ebay. The colour was what first caught my attention, its truely gorgeous. Luckily, I won the auction and this arrived yesterday:
It’s a Cooper Sewing Machine and unfortunately I haven’t managed to find out anything about them the internet. I’ve found a company called Cooper Sewing Machines that was established in 1903 and I’m assuming they made it, but it doesn’t seem like they produce their own machines any more. Their website has barely anything about the history of the company so I might shoot an email off to them to see if they can shed any light. It seems to me that it might be 1950s or 1960s?
The seller was fantastic, it couldn’t have arrived quicker and was so carefully and expertly packed. It is in impeccable condition with very minimal wear and tear and have I mentioned the lovely colour already? Plus, it’s been serviced and is completely ready to go!
Look how shiny everything is! It has a stitch regulator with dial system, reverse-sewing, drop-feed for embroidery and darning and a self-adjusting bobbin winder.
The underside of the machine is just as shiny. This is a very well looked after machine.
The tin of accessories sits in the slide slot.
Inside the tin I got several threads (which I wasn’t expecting!) and a few feet and bobbins. Took me a while to identify the adjustable seam guide as I hadn’t seen one of them before but the rest of them are in the handbook. I’m going enjoy using this machine so much! :)
That is gorgeous. I can’t tell you anything about the machine, but the font on it sure looks like something out of the 50s.
Thanks! I posted this in the vintage sewing machine group on Ravelry and they think it’s a Japanese machine based on a Singer model 15. Japan manufactured them and then the importers would stick their name on it – in this case Coopers. Still working on narrowing down a date.
I have just been given an almost identical version of this sewing machine. Mine is the same colour and the condition’s also great but I don’t have a manual and can’t any information on the web. I have a plug in foot pedal too.
I’m completely new to sewing so I’d be very grateful if you could let me know if you were able to find any information that you could share with me.
Thanks.