Patent No. 402,610, Issued May 7, 1889. Mounted on a Singer sewing machine; sewing machine buttonhole stitching attachment patent model. Button hole attachment is part of the sewing machine patent model 425422 (Cat no. T6644) by Joseph P. Hallenbeck and James A. Osterhout.
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