Members aml311 Posted July 8 Members Report Posted July 8 My family has this vintage shoe cobbler's sewing/stitching machine in their basement, made by the Champion Shoe Machinery Company of St. Louis, Missouri. My uncle wants to scrap it for the metal, but seems like it's in great condition and a cool piece of history. Is there a market out there for something like this if it works? Quote
Members Mulesaw Posted July 8 Members Report Posted July 8 @aml311 If it is in working condition, there normally is a market for it. Do you by chance have some pictures of it? That would help a lot for someone in here to give a more educated guess about model and how sought after the machine is etc. You can try to advertise it for sale on this forum too. https://leatherworker.net/forum/forum/82-machinery-sewing-and-stitching/ The Forum rules in the "for sale section" are stated on the top of this site: https://leatherworker.net/forum/forum/71-items-for-sale/ Brgds Jonas Quote
Contributing Member fredk Posted July 8 Contributing Member Report Posted July 8 5 hours ago, aml311 said: My family has this vintage shoe cobbler's sewing/stitching machine in their basement, made by the Champion Shoe Machinery Company of St. Louis, Missouri. My uncle wants to scrap it for the metal, but seems like it's in great condition and a cool piece of history. Is there a market out there for something like this if it works? As the price of scrap* is so low you wouldn't get the price of the gas to take it to the scrapyard Worth far more, working or not, to a user or collector * £175 per dirty ton of scrap iron. So about $2 for it as scrap Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members Scoutmom Posted July 8 Members Report Posted July 8 Post pictures as was mentioned above. And others will chime in. Quote
Moderator bruce johnson Posted July 8 Moderator Report Posted July 8 There are a few Champions that got traded around this area for years. The old deal with Champions and American straight needles was that most shops had two. One to sew and another to scavenge parts off when they wore totally out on the main machine. The problem was that those same parts were likely worn on the scavenge machine as well. The parts availability is not necessarily what they are for the Landis, Campbell, and Randall machines. The last Champion I know of around here that sewed pretty well sold for $1200. A friend had a Champion deep throat that sort of sewed and he stored it here when he was between places. Once in a while he'd come over and we'd BS for the afternoon, get it going somewhat, and then have some Crown Royal and a steak. When we finally got through the bucket of scavenged parts and it wasn't much better, we called it some quality buddy time and scrapped it. On the stand it weighed around 600#. Quote Bruce Johnson Malachi 4:2 "the windshield's bigger than the mirror, somewhere west of Laramie" - Dave Stamey Vintage Refurbished And Selected New Leather Tools For Sale - www.brucejohnsonleather.com
Northmount Posted July 8 Report Posted July 8 18 hours ago, aml311 said: My family has this vintage shoe cobbler's sewing/stitching machine Moved your post to Leather Sewing Machines Argued with myself as to whether this should stay in history or move to leather sewing machines. Guess who won? Quote
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