Antique New White Peerless Handcrank 3/4 Sewing Machine C1890 Part 2

Hello Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. Today I will present a small update on this pretty little handcrank which you can read about in the previous post New White Peerless Antique Sewing Machine. I literally picked this machine out of the dirt on the floor of a junk shop.

I had a lovely email from Liz who was given one of these machines, so I thought I would give a little update in relation to her question regarding the shuttle and bobbin.

I’m not saying these machines are rare, but, they are certainly not commonplace. When I first picked it up I could find very scant information.

Following on from my first post, I mentioned that I could not open the needle plate. After careful oiling and cleaning I was able to open the needle plate. Here is a view from the underside of the machine and the shuttle can be seen in the holder.

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New White Peerless – The Shuttle and Bobbin

I have taken out the shuttle from the holder. The tip of this shuttle has a notch near the front end which matches up inside the shuttle holder where there is a small projection which lines up with that notch.

Here is a view of the shuttle from the Antique New White Peerless sewing machine.

The question from Liz was whether the shuttle had a pin through the centre to hold the bobbin. The answer is yes. Here, the pin inside the shuttle can be seen and the bobbin with the hole through the centre which slides over the internal pin of the shuttle.