This beautiful antique art piece was manufactured by free sewing machine company in Rockford, Illinois with

patents going back to February 11 1902. The serial number of this pice is c164482. It has beautiful design work

as you can see in the pictures. It has some light scratches but is in great shape overall.

The Free company sold most of their machines through mail-order companies and department stores. In the

mid-1920s, Free became associated with Westinghouse which became the sole supplier of motors and electric

equipment for Free brand sewing machines. The Free sewing machine company merged with the New Home Sewing

Machine Company in 1927 and in the early 1930s New Home models were phased out and ‘New Home’ became a brand of

The Free.

The post World War II period saw the large scale importation of cheap Japanese-made sewing machines into the

United States. Trade barriers favorable to American companies had protected the country’s sewing machine

industry from lower cost and quality foreign made goods. However, the new ideas of free trade slowly eliminated

them.

In an effort to stay solvent, Free/New Home merged with National in the early 1950s. However, the resulting

corporation was not able to compete against cheap overseas labor, and the company was bought out by the Japanese

in 1954.

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