Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers

  1. Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers G8485143
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  3. Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers Identification
  • The most logical places you should find the serial numbers would be at the base of the machine, on its bottom, or at the back of the unit. So far no complete list of serial numbers has been found. There are individual ones like the 1487439, 1619431, and the 1632485., which were used in 1930, 1931 & 1932 respectively.
  • Winselmann Saxonia. Shuttle & bobbin in place, complete with bentwood lid c ase with Key. FiddlebaseHand Crank Sewing Machine. 19th Century Antique.
  • Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers Antique Singer Sewing Machines by Serial Number 1871 -1950 The first Singer sewing machine was manufactured in 1851, but some of the logbooks from that time period were lost.
  • The company was a mixture of three giants in the German sewing machine industry all eventually selling machines under their own names. They were L O Dietrich, G Winselmann, of the Titan mark, and H Kohler. The three men had all worked together at the giant Clemens Muller Sewing Machine Factory in Dresden.

The production of sewing machines by Gustav Winselmann started in 1892 in the town of Altenberg and continued until there until the Second World War.

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Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers G8485143

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The roots of the business can be traced back to the Clemens Muller Co. where Leopold Oskar Dietrich, Hermann K�hler and Gustav Winselmann all worked. They left Clemens Muller in 1871 to found their own workshop for the manufacture of sewing machines in the Meushchee brush factory under the name Dietrich & Co.

Their first model was produced a few months later under the name ‘Allemannia’ and by the end of the first year, approx. 300 had been made.

Try the search term: kohler-winselmann sewing machines uk Your machine was likely brought to the US by a pioneer family (it looks to be in the 1850s to 1870s manufacturing range era), or by a war bride of either of the two world wars.

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After some disagreements between the partners, Dietrich resigned in 1873 and the company was renamed 'Kohler and Winselmann'. In 1877 the factory was moved to a new location is Kotteritzerstrasse (now Kathe-Kollwitz-Strasse), Altenberg.

In 1891, Gustav Winselmann also left to start his own factory, known as ‘Gustav Winselmann Gmbh.‘ The factory was located in Zwickauer Strasse, Altenberg in what had previously been a hat factory. It is said that by 1913 Winselmann had produced one million sewing machines of various types. The factory underwent several major expansions, until by 1927 230+ workers were employed. After the Second World War, the company did not restart manufacture.

Many of the Winselmann models were known by the name ‘Titan’.

Winselmann Titan M

Kohler continued the manufacturing of sewing machines as Hermann Kohler AG employing around 800 workers by 1927.

Winselmann Sewing Machine Serial Numbers Identification

After leaving the original partnership, LO Dietrich went on to found the Vesta Sewing Machine Works in 1875. By 1927 this sucessful business employed over 1250 workers. At the end of the Second World War Altenberg was in East Germany and the company was nationalized. After 1947 when production was slowly restarted, it was known as VEB Nahmaschinenwerke Altenburg.