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International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society

The purpose of the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society is to foster the collecting of, and research into, sewing machines.

Jones Advertisement

Wonder just how much Jones had to pay for this little advertising promotion!!!

Jones Sewing Machines on the Beach

picture circa 1904

Keeping up with the Joneses
Keeping up with the Joneses

- swapping sewing machines for bathing machines to take that annual trip to the seaside (c.1910) (from ISMACS News 137)


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