We've one of these:
It's a 1904 27K which we bought approx 4 years ago from a local shelter charity for the princely sum of £25.
Granted, the woodwork has seen better days and the top cover is missing:
But it does have it's original treadle:
...and what appears to be a vintage leather drive belt:
I'm not convinced the drawers are originally from this table:
They were a proper Aladdins cave though, masses of needles, pins, bobbins and old wooden cotton reels:
We suspect this may have belonged to the wife of a policeman at one point there's a slack handful of these buttons:
After 106 years, a little light machine oil and some Google Fu by my better half to find out how this went together:
...and the machine sings quite as beautifully as it ever has. Sadly, we won't be saying the same about any DVD player, laptop, washing machine, or, I daresay, sewing machine created in the plastic age.