Congratulations on your recent find. Like you, I'm fond of the old hardware. Once you get those old steel and brass gears and shafts pumping they're almost unstoppable.

Good luck on your quest for the Featherweight; it's a grand machine. I have it's bigger brother, the 15-91, and use it regularly on leather, denim and an occasional X-kilt. Built in 1953, it's almost as old as I am, and I'm sure I will wear out before it does.