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    Posted 10 years ago

    singergal4
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    I believe it is a 1920 Singer Sewing Machine. It has a single letter prefix serial #, G-8.229.064. It was a family item passed down through the generations. It started in the hands of my great grandmother, to my grandmother, to me. It has been in kept in great condition and had not been used for many years. While it may be old, it still works great and has all the accessories still included.

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    Comments

    1. Mercer50 Mercer50, 10 years ago
      Your machine is very nice, you are very lucky to have received it throught your family.
      I had no family who sewed, so I started collecting and refurbishing about 6 months ago.
    2. Bernadette Bernadette, 10 years ago
      G- 8199076 8249075 model 15 from a batch of 50,000 commissioned August 5 1920
    3. keramikos, 1 year ago
      Welp, as long as SarahLM (Hi, SarahLM) brought this old vintage sewing machine (VSM) post back to the front page of Collectors Weekly SHow & Tell with a love, I might as well do a bit of backfilling on it. :-)

      The late great Bernadette did a basic model and vintage identification of the sewing machine head.

      To that, I would add that it probably rolled off of the assembly line some time between the allotment date of its block (August 5 1920), and that of the next block of serial numbers intended for model 15 sewing machine heads (November 3 1920):

      *snip*

      G- 8199076 8249075 15 50000 August 5 1920
      G- 8406351 8456350 15 50000 November 3 1920

      *snip*

      https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html

      World War I was over, so Singer was probably going full bore on production for its civilian customer base.

      The specific sub-model of 15 is probably either the 15-30 or the 15-80, because of the spoked wheel and the knob stitch length mechanism on the pillar (scroll down):

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/15

      Here's an operator's manual for a model 15 with those characteristics:

      http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/Singer%20Model%2015%20Manual.pdf

      The decal set is known as "Tiffany":

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal25

      The cabinet is Cabinet Table No. 2 (plain with five drawers):

      https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/cabinet_table_no_2-3.html

      About the factory (all sewing machine heads with G prefix serial numbers were both cast and assembled at the Elizabethport factory except those specified as being assembled elsewhere in the Notes column of the serial number table):

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/elizabethport

      About Singer's cabinet factory in South Bend, IN:

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/southbend

      https://orangebeanindiana.com/2019/06/12/south-bends-singer-sewing-machine-company/

      Because I don't do this enough: a shoutout to the VSM enthusiasts behind all of the websites I linked. Without all of their hard work, VSM newbies (I include myself in that catagory) would be helpless.

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