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That looks like an old Singer table with a new machine on top.
My grandma used to have one at the farm, that was the original, and powered by the pedal you see at the bottom
'fun fact' - the ivory bill wood pecker's habitat was entirely within the tract of land that Singer company used to make these tables. Didn't work out for the ivory bills at all. They are entirely extinct
For a brief moment in history, they sure created a lot of shareholder value.
The funny part - I use that term loosely - is that the ivory bill was very closely related to pileated wood pecker which is a noisy as fuck bird. There are people out in the swamps of the Singer Tract looking for them like bigfoot hunters. They insist that the bird is very reclusive now.