You can actually see under each bank from the front (photo twelve), which is very unusual. The front side was sawn into the "ball" shape (photo eleven), and then the "carving" was applied from the front. The scuffs are still there, of course, but now the cabinet is so shiny that they aren't noticeable, and from some angles (photo ten) you don't see them at all.The same person asked about the design of the bottom of the cabinets. I followed my own advice and buffed the outside of the left bank with a good wax, and the results can be seen in photo nine. A little furniture wax or Old English oil would remove most of this.Note: A sharp-eyed collector noticed the scuffs in photo four and asked about them (see "Questions" section, below). In photo four you can just see several "scuffs" on the outside (curved side) of the left bank, and a mark left where the support for the folding cabinet top was removed. The rounded "outsides" have the same beautiful veneer as the fronts (photo five) the "insides" (photo six) and backs (photo seven) do not. The sides flare in and out, the bottom is round and fat, and the carving is beautiful.Each bank of drawers measures thirteen-and-three-quarters inches high, about six-and-one-half inches wide, and about fifteen inches deep. And that's what makes this set so wonderful.
We have owned tons of antique sewing machine cabinets and the drawers are almost always the same : squares and rectangles, straight lines and ninety-degree angles. Most had one drawer on each side or maybe two, but this set has three. These cabinet drawers were made by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company of Buffalo, New York, probably between 19.This would have been a very deluxe cabinet in its day. "Minnesota" was a trade name used by Sears Roebuck & Company, but Sears did not manufacture their own sewing machines.
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