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Muller Toy Sewing Machines

Alex Askaroff

Alex has spent a lifetime in the sewing industry and is considered one of the foremost experts of pioneering machines and their inventors. He has written extensively for trade magazines, radio, television, books and publications world wide.

The Muller factory was founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Muller in 1868 and ran right up till the 1970's. They were one of the largest manufacturers of small sewing machines in the world.

The company made millions of toy sewing machines for over a century. The factory in Berlin, Germany, also produced a variety of goods from safes and letter openers to fret saws and pencil sharpeners.

The lovely toy sewing machine above,  serial number 362628, was first produced in the Edwardian era, circa 1912 and was one of their most popular early models. 

It is a strange fact that the Muller 0 came much later than the Muller No1.

The Muller model six

The Muller model 6 1894-1914

One of the prettiest of all the Muller toy sewing machines was the Model No 6.

Nickel/silver plated cast iron and gold decoration make this beauty stand out. A strange fact with some of the Muller No 6 models is that they sewed back to front not front to back! There were at least four different models including a later model walking foot. The later design was to help the work feed through with a walking foot but it made little difference. The unusual feeding of the fabric towards the operator rather than away was never explained.

By the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 the Muller No 6 was no more.

The Muller No 6 is possibly the most sought after of all the toy range and prices for superb models like this can go sky high some fetching over $2,000.