Florence Sewing Machine
1865Item 1: Early American wood and cast iron treadle sewing machine
Item 2: 38 page instruction manual
Based in Cleveland, Ohio, A.G. Mason Sewing Machine Company manufactured sewing machines from the 1880s to about 1916. After the original Florence Sewing Machine Company went bankrupt in the late 1870s, Mr Mason apparently acquired the company in the early to mid 1880s. This new company, doing business as the Florence Machine Company and located in Florence, Massachusetts, manufactured sewing machines based on White models.
Like many of the smaller manufacturers, A.G. Mason seems to have concentrated on making sewing machines for department stores and other retailers. Models sold by the company included the Defender, Wilson, Crown, Queen, New Queen and Florence. In the early 1900s, the company apparently moved its operation to Cleveland, Ohio, and was renamed the A.G. Mason Sewing Machine Company. In 1916, the company was purchased by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company which itself later merged with the White SM Co. in the 1920s
Reference: From The Encyclopedia of Antique Sewing Machines, 3rd Edition
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The Florence sewing machine refers primarily to a notable 19th-century American treadle machine (1860s–1870s) known for its ornate, cast-iron design and early reversible lockstitch technology. Manufactured in Massachusetts, these antique machines were famous for using a unique, visible mechanism that produced decorative stitches. Known as one of the first machines to offer a reversible feed and a double lock stitch (decorative stitching).
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