Leader Sewing Machine
The Leader Sewing Machine Company produced sewing machines from 1870 to 1899 or thereabout.[1]
The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio[2] and 1115 Olive Street, St Louis, Montana USA on some 1884 and other Victorian trade cards and 1885 envelopes traded on eBay.
Grace Cooper, in her book "The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Development", lists a "Leader Sewing Machine Company" of Springfield, Massachusetts, with earliest known record of operation being 1882, and ending by 1888.[3]
The A. G. Mason Manufacturing Company manufactured a sewing machine designated the "Leader" amongst others in their line up of Florence, Crown and New Century, there is no known connection to the Leader Sewing Machine Company.[4]
Later, overlockers were made under the Leader brand though they may have been made at a different company to the first one. At least some of the overlockers including a 4 thread model (DC-647) were shipped from China.
See also
References
- ^ "Sewing machines". Historical trade literature in the Smithsonian Collection. Leader Sewing Machine Company. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Best, David. "A-Z of American Sewing Machine Manufacturers". Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Cooper, Grace (1985). The Sewing Machine : Its Invention and Development (Second ed.). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-87474-330-3. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ "Leader sewing machine made by the A. G. Mason Manufacturing Company". The Treadlers Village. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
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