Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers

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We therefore introduced an in house postage and packaging department for the majority of items we sell. Here at Golding Young Limited we understand that when bidding online it is not always convenient or possible to collect your lots in person. Please click here to see the list of machines we are particularly looking for.General delivery information available from the auctioneer Preservation We are seeking additional machines to preserve, especially early cast base or unusually shaped ones not currently represented in the collection. If you come across a period advertisement, price list etc (dated or not) this may provide further information which would help enhance the accuracy of this site and it would be helpful if you could let us have a copy. Identifying the actual manufacturer of such badged machines is extremely difficult. Shown on the following pages are a variety of German produced machines some are from known manufacturers, but many others were specifically made to be exported and labeled for importers and retailers. German sewing machines were often denigrated, particularly by the British as being poor quality, infact the machines were as good, if not better, than those produced by British firms and what's more they were cheaper! German machines were imported into Britain in enormous quantities with many of the main German manufacturers had offices in London, the best known of which was probably Frister & Rossmann. Many German manufacturers produced the same design machine with only minimal changes over long time periods, this particularly occurred with Cast base machines which were produced until at least the First World War. German companies sometimes seem to have copied each others designs exactly, whilst this is possible what may also have happened is in order to meet demand, larger companies may have subcontracted production to smaller companies who then being tooled up could produce further machines for themselves. However as the industry in Germany developed so to did the variety of machines that were produced. These firms tended to copy the early American designs of Wheeler & Wilson and Singer.

However it was not long before hundreds of sewing machine manufacturers sprung up. One of the first companies to be founded was that of Clems Muller who established a factory in Dresden in 1855.

The German sewing machine industry got off to something of a slow start compared with that in America and Britain.

Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers