Posted 6 years ago
Athenajax
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I have no idea about this it was a gift from my stepmom. Please help! It’s also been refinished , but really great shape! I’m just trying to figure out a bit of the history. Thanks so much for all your help!
Hi! The cabinet does open up, it’s really cool but the post only allowed for 4 pictures. Maybe I can swap one picture to show the inside. It does have a serial number on the base of the machine 10043375. I tried to google it, but I didn’t come up with much.
Thanks for responding
Thank you for all the info! I did update the picture of the inside so you could see. ????
Athenajax
I have a singer machine in this exact same cabinet. History of my machine is: Manufactured in 1910. Rebuilt by William McClain at Singer in Urbana, IL. Used in a Home Ec Dept at Warren School, Terre Haute, IN until 1942. My Dad bought it at a sale at the school. It is still in our family and I am still using it often. The cabinet was manufactured for the school class. Hope this helps you
Athenajax
In order to use the machine: open the door far enough for it to be under the opened lid, then raise up the small prop that is attached to the door, (This will support the lid). The belt is made of leather and must be aligned in the treadle-wheel after the machine is opened and placed onto the base top. take the belt off the wheel before trying to put machine back in the cabinet. I bought a replacement belt from singer several yrs ago. Let me know if you want any more help with your machine. Hope this helps you
More back-filling, I suspect.
I seem to recall this as one of the earliest vintage sewing machine posts that piqued my interest back when I was still baby-stepping in terms of my understanding of VSMs.
I hope I didn't steer the OP wrong. >8-0
Anyway: serial number 10043375 was one of 819,999 serial numbers allotted by Singer in 1891:
*snip*
9,810,000 10,629,999 1891
*snip*
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-no-prefix-serial-numbers.html
No model numbers are available in the no alpha character prefix serial number table, but this is a vibrating shuttle, judging from the tell-tale trapezoidal access panel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Singer.Model27.IdentificationGuide.jpg
It has a fiddle-shaped base and being that it probably rolled off of the assembly line in 1891, that would make it a model VS2:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/28
The decoration is floral and probably is this one:
http://needlebar.org/nbwiki/index.php?title=File:009a.jpg
The cabinet looks like Singer Open Side Cabinet No. 23:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/open_side_cabinet_23-24.html
Here is an 1891 manual for the VS2:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/manuals/singer-sewing-machine-vibrating-shuttle-manual-1891.pdf
The label from Lester Simon is a 'retrofit,' as that business didn't exist in 1891:
https://sewing-machine-repair-services.cmac.ws/simon-lester-sew-mach-reprng/1827/
Indeed, three digit telephone area codes didn't exist until after WWII:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/area-code-logic-north-american-numbering-plan
However, the business was still around in 2021:
40 E State St, Quarryville, PA 17566
https://goo.gl/maps/idj7uRidhjNKPbt19