No I didn't find the machine while I was cleaning my sewing room, but I DID (finally, after 21 years) go through my DMIL's sewing box. Lots of odd buttons, cards of needles, snaps, hooks and eyes, a funny little pin cushion, spools of thread, marking tools, many yards of seam binding(!), and....
An *original* manual exactly like this:
Several pairs of scissors, and her *tiny* silver thimble. I will have the scissors sharpened and give them to one of my DDs or DGD, the thimble is going to join my thimble collection.
What? Doesn't everyone have a thimble collection?