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The Jones Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. started life in the town of Audenshaw, just east of Manchester and now next to the M60. In 1859, William and his brother John of Shepley Street, Audenshaw set up a business producing domestic sewing machines. At the time William owned an engineering firm producing very small steam engines.
In 1893 a Jones advertising sheet claimed that this factory was the 'Largest Factory in England Exclusively Making First Class Sewing Machines'. The firm was renamed as the Jones Sewing Machine Co. Ltd and was later acquired by Brother Industries of Japan, in 1968. The Jones name still appeared on the machines till the late 1980s. Jun 19, 2012 I think that it used to be a hand crank machine because there is a receipt - faded through the years - which detail a work order for the motor to be fitted that is dated 1984. I am presuming that the machine is older the that possibly? I have tried to find a list of serial numbers (like on the Singer sites) but so far have drawn a blank.
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Not long after they started they formed a partnership with Thomas Chadwick, trading as Chadwick and Jones. This didn’t last long, as in 1864 Thomas Chadwick went to work for Bradbury and Co., a rival sewing machine manufacturer.
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Just 10 years later, in 1869, William Jones opened purportedly the largest factory in England at Guide Bridge, a few miles east of Audenshaw and the firm was registered as a limited company in 1879. The Jones factory produced a wide variety of machines for both domestic and industrial use, most noticably heavy industrial machines for Burton’s the tailors.
Most of the machines produced had equivalent Singer models but with various differences. The ‘Jones Family’ and ‘Jones Medium Transverse Shuttle’ were very similar models to the Singer 12 and 13.
A Jones hand crank model called the ‘Cat-Back’ (now more commonly called the ‘Serpentine’) was made in large numbers and remained in production for almost 20 years.
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The early Serpentine models did not have a take up lever and the tension discs were mounted on the arm of the machine instead of the faceplate. By around 1883 the faceplate was brass plated with the tension discs mount on it and the decals over the top arm of the machine were ornate vine leaves. By the end of the 1880’s the faceplate was nickel plated and in the centre of the machine bed a decal proclaimed ‘Jones Hand Machine’. A couple of years later this decal was replaced with a brass boss showing a gryphon and the words ‘Jones Hand Machine’. Stamped into the round cloth plate are two stamps The first with the words ‘As supplied to H.R.H. Princess of Wales’ and ‘Jones Hand Machine’ and the second with ‘Jones Sewing Machine Compy Ltd’ and ‘Jones & Compy Guide Bridge, Nr Manchester’ with a trade mark bird with outstretched wings. The Jones Serpentine was also badged for sale under the names of different retailers and special limited edition versions were produced until 1907.
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The Jones Medium Spool was a rotary hook machine that was patented in 1889 and was a copy of the Wheeler and Wilson No.9, the production of which was later taken over by Singer. A few years later the Jones Cylindrical Shuttle was introduced. The Jones Company badged this model with different retailers names. A point of interest a badged Jones machine has a large screw head on the top of the arm between the spool pins.
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The Jones 'Popular' was a solidy built hand-crank vibrating shuttle model finished in a black crinkle finish
Both the Jones Medium Spool and Cylindrical Shuttle machines remained in production until the 1930’s. These models were often badged with different names for larger retailers.
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In 1957 the Jones Company was sold to the Imperial And Continental Gas Association. ICGA already owned E. Harris Ltd. which made sewing machines under the Vickers and BSM names. It appears that E. Harris may well have become involved with the distribution of the Jones machines at this time. By 1962 ICGA had sold its sewing machine business at a minimum book value to the Brother International Group of Japan. They are still today producing sewing machines at the old Jones factory under the Brother name.
August 23, 2018
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If you are one of the lucky people that own or inherited an old, antique Singer sewing machine, you may want to know how old it is and how much it is worth!!
Singer sewing machines were first manufactured in 1851, so if you have an older model, you may have a collector’s item on your hand. If you go to eBay, you can check out what people are paying for these old, antique Singer sewing machines.
Some of the prices are over $3000!!! To find out how much your sewing machine may be worth, you need to know it’s serial number and model number. First, I will show you where to find the serial number and crosscheck it with a database to find the year it was issued. Finding the model number on some old models is harder and may need some digging.
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Ok, now to the meat and potatoes of this article. The serial number will be on a metal plate somewhere on your Singer sewing machine. When you find your serial number, you then crosscheck it with a database on Singer’s website.
This will tell you when the sewing machine was issued. To be clear, just because you bought the sewing machine in a certain year, doesn’t mean that the sewing machine was issued in that year. It may have been produced in a different year than the year the first purchase was made.
The general rubric for determining which year your sewing machine was manufactured is below:
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- If you find that your serial number consists of numbers only, it was manufactured before 1900 (Cha-Ching!)
- If you find that your serial number has a single or two-letter prefix before the number, your sewing machine was manufactured after 1900. (Still may be worth some money!)
After you find your serial number, go HERE to the International Sewing Machine Collectors Society website and find out what year your sewing machine was issued.
If you want help with finding your model number, go HERE to ISMACS’ website and they may be able to help you with your model number.
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With your serial number and model number in hand, jump on over to eBay. Search and see what people are paying for your model/serial numbered Singer sewing machine!!!
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Good luck and I hope you have a gold mine on your hands!! Thanks for stopping by and checking out our article on how to identify singer sewing machine by serial number.