TABITHA SEWING MACHINE

Tabitha Toy Sewing Machine This small rare sheet brass travel / toy sewing machine dates from the late 1800's and was manufactured in America by the Manhattan Brass Co. of New York. It was patented in 1888 by a T. H. Martin, patent US 379.175. There are several different variations of this sewing machine that can be found and examples marked "Pearl" are very similar. There is one pictured in Glenda Thomas' book in its original box and it mentions and pictures other differently marked versions that can be found. This is a earlier version and is marked Patent Appl'd For in the base. 

 

PATENTS

US 379.175                     Thomas  Herbert  Martin               March 6, 1888

Improved Sewing. Machine

for which I have obtained patents in:

Great Britain, GB 12.369, dated September 29, 1886

France, No. 180.203, dated December 9, 1886

Belgium, No. 75,673, dated December 21, 1886

Germany, No. 40.797, dated December 14, 1886

Norway, No. 290, dated December 16, 1886

Sweden, No. 25 35 15 1,009, dated December 22, 1886

Spain, No. 6.623/10.514, dated March 11, 1887

Victoria, No. 5,039, dated April 27, 1887

New South Wales, No. 2.115, dated July 30, 1887

Austria-Hungary, No. 12.354 and No. 35.948, dated September 15, 1887

Italy, No. 306, Vol. XLII, dated May 3, 1887

 

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