She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:
Ron Anderson wrote

I agree that dealer label is misleading, one might also assume it to
be an Necchi or Elna, or perhaps even made by hand by Mr. Jolsen.

No. It says that Jolsen is the dealer, and that he also sells ncchis and
Elnas. The Nelco symbol implies, at least to the uninitiated, that the
machine is manufactured by Nelco.


The original poster asked a good open question and backed it up with
excellent references allowing Ron (from his experience) to answer
immediately and me (from my ignorance) to research some of the background.

The Internet is a wonderful thing, and the information you get is
sometimes worth more than you pay for it.

The machine in question is badged Sew'N-Go. The manufacturer is
Sanshin, from the evidence of the serial plate. The dealer's sticker is
headed Nelco and claims Leon Jolson as its author.

It looks to me as if Leon Jolson *was* NELCO.

http://www.geocities.com/lamx/History.html

http://www.virtualnewarknj.com/memor...odianhouse.htm

Which would explain why the dealer sticker is headlined Nelco, and how
there came to be machines that were badged Nelco - he imported and
badged them.