Last Updated: 3 May 2006
German - Russian's MEMORABILIA Continued:
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Carding Board (top shelf to the lt) and a Small Hand Loom (far rt).
Spinning Wheel for Flax (middel shelf on rt) with Distaff with Flax Fibers Used to Make Linen
Sewing Machine with Hand Crank [bottom shelf].
The
most popular machines in the Bessarabian area were [and still are being]
made by the Pfaff Company in Kaiserslautern / Rhineland-Pfalz,
Germany.
See site on Pfaff sewing machine factory which was founded by
Georg Michael Pfaff in 1862.
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See my Pfaff Family History.
*From Alfred Hein's
Photo
Collection - 2003