Posted 2 months ago
keramikos
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While I'm idly waiting (perhaps in vain) for CW user nanniejo to create a post with pictures of their VSM (reportedly a Pritzlaff-badged National Eldredge, SN 2740462), here are some pages from a 1915 Pritzlaff catalog.
In 1915, they offered both rotary and vibrating shuttle sewing machines, attachments, supplies such as needles, bobbins, shuttles, sewing machine oil, treadle belts, and cabinets.
The catalog also has a drawing of the Pritzlaff Buildings complex as it looked in 1915.
REFERENCES:
All images in this post are from an archive dot org copy of the 1915 Pritzlaff Company catalog:
https://archive.org/details/pritzlaff-hardware-1915-1870/page/1232/mode/1up
The old Unity-badged National Improved Eldredge IEB post onto which nanniejo piggybacked comments about their own VSM:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/194225-antique-national-unity-treadle-sewing-ma
Pritzlaff is a known badge for National sewing machines:
http://needlebar.org/main/makers/usa/national/index.html#p
National vibrating shuttle sewing machines:
http://www.needlebar.org/main/national/index1.html
National rotary sewing machines:
http://www.needlebar.org/main/national/index2.html
A National Governor A, (known in the USA as the Improved Eldredge B), SN 2263543:
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/national%20sewing%20machine.htm
A 1903 Pritzlaff-badged National vibrating shuttle (it looks like it might be a VB-TT Type 4):
https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage-antique-machine-enthusiasts-f22/eldridge-pritzgraff-treadle-machine-t257859.html
A National badged sewing machine (a very old humpback style sewing machine) installed in a parlor cabinet with the shoes-shaped treadle rest):
https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/post/show_single_post?pid=1334915613&postcount=46&forum=501752
About National:
https://ismacs.net/national/from_eldredge_to_national_to_janome.html
The Pritzlaff Buildings complex nowadays:
https://historicmilwaukee.org/doors-open/buildings/pritzlaff-building/
