1903.

on a high shelf of my uncle's shop:



my mom and i took it down and cleaned it off with paintbrushes, like archaeologists.

shazam:





what a fine old machine. it is a willcox and gibbs, from 1903. it is missing parts, but a lovely thing. we admired it, wrote down the serial number to research it, and put it back where we found it, to collect itself a new cozy dust blanket.