Some other tidbits on the Franz and Pope History from around the web:
Advertisement shared on Huntington Library web site:
News article from 1877 announcing that Franz and Pope was going into partnership with Creelman in Canada. Creelman later came out with their own line of knitting machines. Courtesy Angora Valley.
The York (PA) Daily Record published an article in which they linked the founder of the Lee Jeans company to Franz and Pope Knitting Machines.
The article includes the original patent drawing for the knitting machine from 1869.
In 1879, in the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a judge ruled that their patents had been infringed upon by Dana Bickford of Bickford Family Knitting machines. You can read about it here on the Case Law Access project. The impact on the community of Brattleboro, Vermont in New England is described in this news article.
In 1881, it was ruled in that their patents had been infringed upon by the Lamb Knitting Company. This link to LawResource.org gives the full text.
I found this photo of a Franz and Pope with gold paint. It's not the same exact model as mine. Photo courtesy of Victiques.
and here's another, courtesy of "Images of Old Hawaii". Do you think that Ida Mae Pope took it with her to teach in the Queen's home? This one is similar to mine.
OldTymeStockings gives a photo of a later machine with the raised lettering indicating it is a Franz and Pope. This is model #2. Does that mean mine must be a #1, since the company hadn't learned to put identifying marks on it yet?
From the same web site, here's a photo of model #4. Why don't things get decorated with gold leaf anymore?
From Worthpoint, an image from an auction listing of a machine with all the doodads. I can't share the photo here, but if you click the link you can see it.
Evidently William Franz moved to Forth Worth, Indiana later in life. His obituary is shared on the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette.
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