TWO MORE GOLD MEDALS AND TEEEE SILVER MEDALS AWARDED TO EHE U "O L 0 E. E N C E . " ■*- THE Highest Pkizes for Sewing Machines ■ WERE GIVEN TO THE " F L O B E N C E , " In 1567, at the AMERICAN INSTITUTE, NEW YORK (the greatest honor attainable in the United States); Mechanics' Institute, in Lowell, Massachusetts, in October; EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, in July; Manchester arid Liverpool Agricultural Society's Centenary Exhibition, in August; and at Coventry and Midland Manufacturing Industrial and Art Exhibition, in October. — — ' THE BEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE in the world. It comprises all the good points, and combines ?.L that is valuable in the whole of them, besides w:uck it . has , many important advantages possessed by no other machine. ' i THE REVERSIBLE FEED enables the operator tosew either way; fasten to ends of seams without stopping or turning the work. ■■ . ' '— — - ■ IT HAS THE SELF-ADJUSTING SHUTTLE ■ ' TENSION.' IT MAKES FOUR KINDS OF STITCHES. THE SAVING OF .THREAD over machines making the chain or embroidery stitch will in one year be-more than the cost ol the machine. THE LOCK STITCH, compared with the chain stitch, is less clumsy,— is less liable to be washed : or ironed off,- and does 1 not, like the latter, form a network to retain dirt. : THE EXACT AND POSITIVE MOTION of every part, with no uncertain springs or. brush' . pads, renders it "almost impossible for a Florence to get out of order, and enables even an ordinary operator to use it successfully.r .IT USES THE SAME SIZE THREAD* . on both sides; and both sides of'the seam are alike JTHAT, IT ISjTHErBEST,; is.eyidenced .by )Ke^fact that of^thei thousands soldr in the- United Kingdom' during th& past Woyears,, none give dissatisfaction^ ' l wr-rulf- .cv.!. •.■.'. ' All extras, fifteen articleaand one dozen, needles. : OFCEtAEGE." ' ' ALFRED O A EE Y , SOLE AGENT FOR - NEW A ZEALAND, ' Bridge-street. Foxm Doobs from ■■•■:• FLORENOE MACHINEsf: SOLD ON ■ ' : 1' ' : PAYMENTSiIr^u itf&.i -.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 202, 24 August 1872, Page 4
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