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November 2025
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The best book, Toy and Miniature Sewing Machines (in two volumes), by Glenda Thomas, is out of print, so you’ll have to look to used-book sources to find it or go online for information. The International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society has a good Web site to start at, www.ismacs.net.

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