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Varley & Co manufactured and imported sewing machines from 1880 up until the Great War, ceasing production around 1918. Originally, the company was Varley & Wolfenden. The British company was based in Keighley, Yorkshire. Their badge emblem was the Cyclops a mythical Greek giant with one eye that Odysseus encountered on his epic journey. The one eye could relate to the single eye of the needle. Their best selling model was based on the Singer model 12-13 New Family of 1865; popularly know as the Fiddlebase due to its fiddle shaped cast bed. They also made ornately carved cabinets and cast treadle assemblies. Many of the machines would have originally had the Royal coat of arms on the main bed of the sewing machine.
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