I've never seen leg irons with a badge like this.  Though it says 'Singer', this is like no Singer I've ever seen.  The leg irons are in fairly good condition, and for the moment I am not going to try to 'restore' them,  At some point they may have been painted over the original black finish, and this will need some thought.  So far all I have done is give them a rub over with a microfibre duster.

The table top looks reasonably OK at first glance, but there is more to it than first strikes, as you will see.

 

The machine head also looked  fairly good, but the hand wheel was very stiff, so there was obviously some work needed.

I eventually got two of the four slide plates to move ( after the careful application of generous quantities of machine oil and several days of patient waiting!) and removed the second not so rusty shuttle and the single bobbin from the shuttle race.  This part of the machine was surprisingly free of rust, given the state of the rest of it!

 

The finish on the hand wheel itself is slightly pitted and the face plate is scratched.  Nothing too serious, and not too cosmetically displeasing.  Except for the scratches, the decals themselves are in good order and not flaking.

Closer inspection revealed that the bobbin winder was very rusty, and the tyre perished.  A new tyre and belt were ordered from Helen Howes.  I removed the bobbin winder carefully and out it aside for further work later...  It'll need more dismantling and quite a bit of careful polishing of the rusty parts to make it work smoothly.

Removing the bobbin winder gave a much clearer view of the badge: Adria.  The collective wisdom of the gurus on the NeedleBar and at Treadle On is that this machine was built in Hungary, possibly before 1900, though exactly when is a bit of a guess.

One of the two shuttles is VERY rusty, as you can see.  The other (not pictured) has only one small rust spot, and will be easier to deal with.  They are slightly different (more pix of them later).  Some of the feet and the spool pins are also very rusty and will need quite a bit of work.

The machine had but the one single very rusty needle in it!  Thanks to Claire from the NeedleBar and Helen, I now have two bright shiny ones to try in thie machine when she's up and running.

 

The decals on the back of the machine head and on the belt guard are very pretty and in very good condition.  Not 100% perfect, but after 100 years and some serious work during the lifetime of the machine it's surprising any survive at all, really!

 

Removing the face plate allowed access to the tension assembly (rusty!) and the needle and presser foot bars (clogged with fossilized grease - yuk!).  This area was all cleaned out (Bix plastic toothpicks and cotton buds soaked in oil are good!), polished up and reassembled.  You can see the before and after state of the tension disks!  I greased everything that had had grease on it, oiled everything else, and magically it all seemed to work when reassembled!  I must take the face plate off again and take pix of the tension for you: it is a poem of simplicity!

Inside, there was considerable rust on the two main drives, but this does not seem to interfere with the working of the machine.  I cleaned out all the loose rust and polished off what I could from the shafts.  The gears got cleaned up (no rust there, just several teaspoonfuls of fossilized crud!) and re-greased, and now run smoothly.  As you can see, I also took the hand wheel off and polished up and greased that end of the drive shaft.  This little head now turns as sweet as pie!

 

At this point i was ready to reassemble the table:  I also needed the bench and my cutting table set up for a customer's posh frock project, and needed to consolidate the piles of rusty and greasy sewing machine parts!

The legs and the treadle itself went together really well, once I found a big enough screwdriver and a suitable spanner!  And this time I didn't drop a bit on my foot!

Here there is evidence of the legs having been painted after the table was assembled.  I cannot really tell whether this is original, but rather doubt it...

 

Here are the treadle flywheel and the little skirt guard.  This points to this being at least pre WWI, as I don't think machines after that had the skirt guard: it was a log time after then that skirts were voluminous enough to need one, and by then most machines were being produced with electric motors...

     

Once reassembled, you begin to notice the problems with the table and the box cover...

There are a couple of corners showing the veneer beginning to peel off a bit.  This shouldn't be too difficult to glue and clamp with the right compounds and equipment.  The table top has a small area of veneer missing totally, but quite a stretch along the front is lifting.  This could be more of a problem.  The handle is also missing from the box, and part of the drawer runner is gone at one side.  This can be repaired, but it's another thing to think about.

Alan Bamber of Bamber Sewing machines has sent me a handle which looks to be the right type, and could be made to fit without too much surgery on the lid, but I shall hold off on that for a while and see if a closer fit turns up.

 

Though she isn't screwed down yet, and I have a bent drip pan to straighten as well as the feet to polish and the belt to fit, now the little Adria Saxonia is looking much more the thing!  A bit more spit and polish (well, oil rather than spit!) and she'll be ready to test!