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FRISTER & ROSSMANN
Transverse Shuttle (TS)
Sewing Machines from 1888 to 1925
TS 1 from # 573.493 (1888 c.) to # 575.000 (1888 c.)
Decal style: 3 Stars & Snowflakes
Mother of pearl decoration
Shuttle ejector button
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid
Rectangular plate for thread thicknesses according to the needle size
Large flywheel
TS 2 (TS 1-1) from # 578.590 (1888 c.) to # 709.086 (1895 c. )
Decal style: 3 Stars & Snowflakes
Mother of pearl decoration
Shuttle ejector button
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid
Rectangular plate for thread thicknesses according to the needle size
Large flywheel
A silver pull down lever on the left of the arm
TS 3 (TS 1-2) from # 709.800 (1895 c.) to # 724.600 (1895 c.)
Decal style: 3 Stars & Snowflakes
Mother of pearl decoration
With shuttle ejector button
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
attachments compartment inside the wooden cover
The silver pull down lever on the left has been replaced by an access hole. "Later this is omitted altogether"
TS 2b (TS 2) 1889 c.
Decal style: Rock Rose
Shuttle ejector button
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
Attachments compartment inside the wooden lid
Rectangular plate for thread thicknesses according to the needle size
Large flywheel
A silver pull down lever on the left of the arm
TS 4 from # 732.376 (1895 c.) to # 901.360 (1900 c. )
With a new shuttle ejection mechanism that uses the front slide plate
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
attachments compartment inside the wooden cover
A third slide plate has appeared to the front of the machine
The serial number 774.345 is the last machine badged S.LOEWE 49 Fore Street.
The serial number 771.382 is the first machine badged W.PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street.
Coincidentally with Pierssene as new sole agent the two serials digits for the serial number ended.The serial number 771.315 badged S. LOEWE , is the first recorded machine with only one serial digits.
From this moment in then the sewing machines are also sold through AGENTS HARROD'S, LIMITED. The PIERSSENE 49 Fore Street oval brass badge is still on machines as well the new Harrods logo on the bed of the machines.
TS 5 s/n from 904.332 (1900) to 918.815 (1900 )
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
attachments compartment inside the wooden cover
The rectangular plate shows suitable thread thicknesses according to the needle size used was replaced on left side of the arm by a brass plate
A third slide plate has appeared to the front of the machine
TS 6 from # 920.050 (1901 c.) to # 981.500 (1902 c. )
Bobbin winder German Patent D.R.P. No. 12784
attachments compartment inside the wooden cover
The rectangular plate shows suitable thread thicknesses according to the needle size used has been definitively removed
1903
In July the sewing machines production reach one million
TS 7 from # 980.800 (1902 c.) to # 1.113.500 (1905 c.)
Decal style "Oak Leaves"
New bobbin winder
This bobbin winder type was also used on the VS machines
attachments compartment inside the wooden cover
On HARRODS logo you can read now No. 15.
Machines are still with the PIERSSENE badge.
TS 7-1 from # 1.124.098 (1905 c.) to # 1.237.350 (1907 c.)
Decal style "Oak Leaves"
attachments compartment on wood base
On the sewing machine logo you can read "Harrod's No.15"; on the oval brass badge you read the PIERSSENE address in London.
TS 8 from #1.237.400 (1907 c.) to # 1. (19 c.)
Decal style "Red Lilies"
TS 8-1 s/n from 1.247.894 (1908) to 1.278.286 (1908 c.)
Decal style "Red Lilies"
new style for the attachments compartment
Serial number 1.330.104 is the last machine badged W. PIERSSENE 49 Fore St.
Serial number 1.332.239 is the first machine badged W. PIERSSENE 24/25 Fore St.
TS 8-2 s/n from 1.272.924 (1908) to 1.387.823 (1911 )
Decal style "Red Lilies"
From now on the machines are sold by Harrods without the Pierssene badge and offered with a new Harrod's Instructions for Working.
HARROD'S Limited, may have still import machines up to the outbreak of WWI.
TS 8-3 s/n from 1.401.465 (1912) to 1.497.219 (1915 )
Decal style "Red Lilies"
"FRISTER & ROSSMANN BERLIN" on top of the arm
1914
4 August 1914 , United Kingdom declared war on the German Empire
TS 8-4 s/n 1.489.132 1914
Decal style "Red Lilies"
1915 - 1916 - 1917
( from 1.490.000 to 1.610.000 )
W.PIERSSENE who was in the employ of F&R at this time, left the company for a new sewing machine manufacturer, the English VICKERS.
After 1.497.000 circa NOT BADGE on the arm and not BERLIN elsewhere. It is possible that about 50.000 or more, sewing machines without have been badged, were sold between 1915 and 1917 to the United Kingdom and to their allies despite the embargo on Germany export.
TS 8-5 s/n from 1.540.896 (1916) to 1.567.699 (1916 )
TS 8-6 s/n 1.567.823
TS 8-7 s/n from 1.574.420 (1917) to 1.595.735 (1917 )
1918
( from 1.610.000 to 1.630.000)
11 November 1918 end of WWI
From serial number 1.600.000 circa the F&R sewing machines are again badged with the new English sole agent , Oliver Quitmann based at 18 City Road in London.
TS 8-K s/n from 1.615.224 (1918) to 1.664.099 (1922 )
TS 9 s/n 1.425.477 1912
1925
In this year the history of the Frister & Rossmann company ended. It was taken over by the Gritzner company from Karlsruhe, Durlach, which later, in 1931, merged with the Kayser company from Kaiserslautern.
