FRISTER & ROSSMANN
Transverse Shuttle (TS)
Sewing Machines from 1888 to 1925
TS 1 "3 Stars & Snowflakes"
573.000 (1888) -- 575.000 (1888)
Mother of pearl decorations. Shuttle ejector button. Bobbin winder Patent D.R.P. No. 12784. Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. Rectangular plate for thread thicknesses according to the needle size. Large flywheel.
TS 1-1 "3 Stars & Snowflakes"
578.000 (1888) -- 709.100 (1895)
Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. Large flywheel. A silver pull down lever on the left of the arm. The silver pull down lever later was replaced by an access hole.
TS 1-2 "3 Stars & Snowflakes"
709.800 (1895) -- 725.000 (1896)
Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. The silver pull down lever on the left has been replaced by an access hole. "Later this is omitted altogether".
TS 2 "Rock Rose"
1889 c.
Shuttle ejector button. Bobbin winder Pat. D.R.P. No. 12784. Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. Rectangular plate for thread thicknesses according to the needle size. Large flywheel. A silver pull down lever on the left of the arm.
TS 3 "Snowflakes"
732.000 (1896) -- 902.000 (1900)
New shuttle ejection mechanism via the front sliding plate. Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. A third sliding plate has appeared to the front of the machine. A slim flywheel.
1896 # 771.382 is the first machine badged W.PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street
1897 # 774.345 is the last machine badged S.LOEWE 49 Fore Street
TS 3-1 "Snowflakes"
904.300 (1900) -- 919.000 (1900)
The rectangular plate shows suitable thread thicknesses according to the needle size used was replaced on left side of the arm by a brass plate.
TS 3-2 "Snowflakes"
920.000 (1901) -- 980.799 (1902)
Bobbin winder Patent D.R.P. No. 12784. Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid. The rectangular plate shows suitable thread thicknesses according to the needle size used has been definitively removed.
TS 4 "Oak Leaves"
980.800 (1902) -- 1.113.500 (1905)
New bobbin winder. This bobbin winder type was also used on the VS machines. Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid.
TS 4-1 "Oak Leaves"
1.124.000 (1905) -- 1.237.399 (1907)
This new bobbin winder type was also used on the VS machines. Attachments compartment on wood base.
"Red Lilies"
TS model
from # 1.237.400 (1907) to # 1.664.100 (1923)
"Red Lilies" decals, Frister & Rossmann's long-lasting "decals style", were also used for different models such as the TSH (Hybrid) from 1916 c. until the acquisition of the company by Gritzner in 1925 and TS48-K from 1925 until the dissolution of Frister & Rossmann in 1929.
Red lilies are said to mean love and passion.
TS 5 "Red Lilies"
1.237.400 (1907) -- 1.387.850 (1911)
old style for the attachments compartment
TS 5-1 "Red Lilies"
1.247.400 (1908) -- 1.280.000 (1908)
new style for the attachments compartment
TS 5-2 "Red Lilies"
1.401.400 (1912) -- 1.518.000 (1915)
FRISTER & ROSSMANN BERLIN
on top of the arm
TS 5-3 "Red Lilies"
1.489.132 (1914)
NOT BADGE
not names nowhere
TS 5-4 "Red Lilies"
1.525.000 (1916) -- 1.567.699 (1916)
NOT BADGE
BERLIN nowhere
TS 5-5 "Red Lilies"
1.574.420 (1917) -- 1.595.735 (1917 )
NOT BADGE
FRISTER & ROSSMANN
on top of the arm
TS 5-6
1.567.823 (1917)
TS 5-K "Red Lilies"
1.615.000 (1920) -- 1.664.250 (1923)
Oliver Quitmann
18 CITY ROAD LONDON
TS 6 "Wheaten"
# 1.425.477 (1913)
BADGED
TS 6-1 "Wheaten"
# 1.537.042 (1916)
NOT BADGE
HARROD'S TS
From about 1900, Frister & Rossmann machines are branded and sold by London's Harrods Stores until 1914.
Harrod's TS 3
"Snowflakes"
Sold through
AGENTS HARROD'S, LIMITED Brompton Road.
The brass badge with W. Pierssene 49 Fore Street address in London is still in place with the Harrod's logo on the bed of the sewing machines.
Harrod's TS 3-1
"Snowflakes"
The brass badge with the PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street address in London still on the arm of the machine.
Harrod's TS 4
"Oak Leaves"
In 1903, coincidentally, when F&R reached one million machines produced, the No. 15 will be added to the Harrod's logo. The brass badge with the PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street address in London still on the arm of the machine.
Harrod's TS 5
"Red Lilies"
By 1907, on Harrod's "Red Lilies" series of TS sewing machines, the brass badge of the F&R company was removed.
1888
S. LOEWE 49 FORE STREET
1896
W. PIERSSENE 49 FORE STREET
# 771.382 is the first machine badged W.PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street
1897
# 774.345 is the last machine badged S.LOEWE 49 Fore Street
1910
# 1.330.104 is the last machine badged W. PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street
1911
W. PIERSSENE 24-25 FORE STREET
# 1.332.239 is the first machine badged W. PIERSSENE 24/25 Fore Street
1903
In July the sewing machines production reach one million
1914
4 August 1914 , United Kingdom declared war on the German Empire
W. PIERSSENE who was in the employ of F&R at this time, left the company for a new sewing machine manufacturer, the English VICKERS.
1915 - 1916 - 1917
from # 1.490.000 to # 1.570.000
# 1.492.547 is the last machine badged W. PIERSSENE 24/25 Fore Street
After 1.497.000 circa NOT BADGE on the arm and not BERLIN elsewhere. It is possible that about 20.000 or more, sewing machines without have been badged, were sold between 1915 and 1917 to the United Kingdom and to their allies despite the embargo on Germany export.
1918
from # 1.570.000 to # 1.585.000
11 November 1918 end of WWI
From # 1.600.000 circa the F&R sewing machines are again badged with the new English sole agent Oliver Quitmann based at 18 City Road in London.
1925
# 1.664.099 last TS model serial number for the year 1925
1,664,099 last serial number of the TS model for the year 1925
In this year the history of the Frister & Rossmann company ended. It was taken over by the Gritzner company from Karlsruhe, Durlach, which later, in 1931, merged with the Kayser company from Kaiserslautern.
