Posted 8 years ago
Nadja0309
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Hello everybody.
I've found this very old industrial singer sewing machine in my beloved great-granddad's house and would really like to know which model it is. My great-granddad has spent his entire life in Salzburg, Austria, working as upholsterer and serving bravely in WW1.
I would be very grateful if you could help me solve this mystery.
Thanks and best regards,
Nadja
Dimensions in mm:
L 650
W 250
H 560
Beautiful sewing machine. Singer identification number here: http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-sewing-machine-serial-number-database.html
Still searching for a model number.
Hello freon,
Thank you very much for your comment. It's really though finding information about such an old machine.
1871 and I fear that is all there is. Puts it at the first year of Singers.
Looking for some information I found that it could be Singer model 7 series. Look like Singer 7-33 or 7-34. Look for more information in this series. I'm restoring one myself the Singer 81-5 from 1925. I will post my sew machine when is finish. Hope you get more information
Hello,
Thank you very much for your comments. I've been looking at Singer 7-33 as well as 7-34 and even though they have a lot in common there is one big difference which I have not yet noticed on any other sewing machine. I'm talking about the shape of the covering plate which can be seen in the second picture - all other models have a round covering plate except for this one. Identifying such an old heirloom is really tougher than I thought.
It is a model 7. The serial number with 7 digits dates to 1889. The 7 was built in many configurations for many different applications. http://needlebar.org/cm/displayimage.php?album=643&pid=3420#top_display_media
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/model-list/classes-1-99.html
It is STUNNING! <3 HOLY COW I'm envious!
Just working my way through old CW S&T posts that have Singer no-prefix serial numbers, because the ISMACS team has been working on a project to flesh out the information on them.
With regard to this one, the ISMACS team said:
"This is an "Elizabethport gap" of 500 SNs between two documented Kilbowie batches assigned in early 1889. The heart of the ISMACS project begun by John Langdon and Martin Gregory was the identification of the "gaps" between the documented UK batches; before 1900 they would all have been US production [the former Williams factory in Montreal, bought by Singer in mid-1880s, seems to have had their SNs sub-allotted from SN sequences allotted to the Elizabethport factory]."