A rare hand-operated Wheeler & Wilson No.1 sewing machine, No.274943, with bevel-geared crank drive and horizontal flywheel, in D-ended walnut case with angled crank, spare bobbins and a price list --17½in. wide, circa 1867

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A rare hand-operated Wheeler & Wilson No.1 sewing machine, No.274943, with bevel-geared crank drive and horizontal flywheel, in D-ended walnut case with angled crank, spare bobbins and a price list --17½in. wide, circa 1867

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The price list includes a hand machine on wood base with cover at #5.15.0d , and two others on stands: the other twenty machines listed are presumably all treadle versions. The glass presser-foot is chipped, and gilt decoration is present but rubbed.

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