Photography

By Linford.nl On January 4, 2017

Helvetia Electric sewing machine (1960s)
Here we have a fairly late Helvetia sewing machine. Fiddlebase tells me “Helvetia” was a Swiss manufacturer in Luzern from 1895 to 1966 also connected to the development of the Dutch Fridor machines. This machine seems to have been manufactured a little before 1966. It is a very nice reciprocating shuttle machine. The colour is very […]
Several Peeps in Jeeps
We went to see this local museum. The museum shows how our area was affected by operation Market garden. (http://www.museumniemandsland.nl/) It is a very small museum, but inside we saw some interesting displays, vehicles and relics found in the area. It was also staged as a stop in the route of a convoy of historic military […]
A little Key project
Here we have a pretty old box. Maybe made around 1850. There was no key with it, so we couldn't see the contents. I imagined the lock wouldn't very complicated, so I took a bit of copper brake pipe and soldered a simple "bit"onto the pipe. Then I filed the bit down until it fitted the […]
Singer Toy Sewing machine (1960s)
This machine is a little outside the scope of our usual sewing machine collection as it is a toy machine and it is mostly plastic. But it is such a nice representative of the Sixties toy machines that it deserves a place here. It comes complete with a little case, a cheerful manual and a […]