Posted 10 years ago
Kydur
(103 items)
I bought this machine at auction for $40 and it was in really bad shape. The wooden cabinet was falling apart and it was obvious it suffered a lot of water damage. All the veneer was either peeling or missing.
The machine is missing some pieces but was the same model as the first machine I bought and so it'll be good for parts. The treadle is in really good shape as is the rest of the metal stand.
The stamped wood drawers are repairable, although one is missing. I've since taken the cabinet part and the metal stand and treadle are ready to be sanded and repainted. I'm considering getting it sandblasted so I could end up with an awesome treadle stand to use for a table or something.
The drawers, with their press wood sides, will make a nice mini parts cabinet. The Singer sewing machine online serial number database dates this machine to 1915.
This machine is also a 115 - with Wings decal in lovely condition. If you post the full serial number I may be able to give you a closer date for it. This model is less common than the Tiffany - I would restore this one, and put it in the other cabinet, if it was mine :)
Serial number is G4053182. Thanks again!
So you're saying I should use the machine I dated as 1919 to perhaps scavenge parts from to restore this one? Or I suppose it would be best to try and find other sources for parts and restore both?
Are you in Canada by any chance? :) This one is G- 4048251 - 4053250 115, again a batch of 5000, April 21 1915 - made for St. Jean, Québec plant at the Elizabethport factory. (this is quite common practice for Singer).
You could restore both, but this Wings machine is less common to find than the Tiffany so if you have to choose, scavenge from the Tiffany to restore this one, or change over the cabinets.
I live on the west coast of Canada, so these machines travelled a long ways from Montreal. Thanks for the info on which is the best machine to restore. I suppose if I had my druthers I'd restore both/all of them, so I may have to find a source of just the individual parts.
Definitely the best restored machine will go in the best cabinet!
They're close enough in age for it not to matter about the cabinets :)