The Leader Sewing Machine Company produced sewing machines from 1870 to 1899 or thereabout.[1]
The base of operations shows as 479 to 497 Case Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio[2] and 1115 Olive Street, St Louis, Montana USA on some 1884 and other Victorian trade cards and 1885 envelopes traded on eBay.
Grace Cooper, in her book "The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Development", lists a "Leader Sewing Machine Company" of Springfield, Massachusetts, with earliest known record of operation being 1882, and ending by 1888.[3]
The A. G. Mason Manufacturing Company manufactured a sewing machine designated the "Leader" amongst others in their line up of Florence, Crown and New Century, there is no known connection to the Leader Sewing Machine Company.[4]
Later, overlockers were made under the Leader brand though they may have been made at a different company to the first one. At least some of the overlockers including a 4 thread model (DC-647) were shipped from China.
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- Sewing machines Historical trade literature in the Smithsonian Collection, Leader Sewing Machine Company, retrieved 24 September 2011^
- David Best. A-Z of American Sewing Machine Manufacturers retrieved 24 September 2011^
- Grace Cooper. The Sewing Machine : Its Invention and Development