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To get ready for the auction, Bette Boellstorff’s family spent months cleaning the antique and vintage machines, careful not to damage the designs.

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SYRACUSE, Neb. (KOLN/Gray News) - In a 4-H building in Syracuse, Nebraska, over 250 sewing machines were up for sale at an auction. They were collected by Bette Boellstorff, a seamstress ...

(Photo courtesy of Carrie Knapp) LINCOLN, Neb. — It seems that Bette Boellstorff never met a sewing machine she didn’t like. Over more than 40 years of collecting, from bidding at farm sales ...