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Posted 5 years ago
Nerissalynn
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I would like to see if anyone has more information about this. I just bought it from an antique store next to my salon. ????I love it but don't know much about it. There seriously number is G0487119. Like what year, if anyone has a manual.
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This will help to date your machine.
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-p-series-serial-numbers.html Very pretty machine.
I was able to find it, it said 1910. Yeah I went back and looked again because I didn't see any numbers that looked like that. But that's about all I could find is the year.
Posted the chart above. It's is the 040000-090000 catagory. Yes one of 50,000. Model 15
Can you yell me what model and year my Singer is by the serial number? #G9269698
More backfilling.
The OP provided a snapshot of what they thought was the pertinent section of the G serial number table. Here is the line that they presumably thought was pertinent:
G- 040001 090000 15 50000 January 8 1910
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
That block of serial numbers would indeed pertain to Singer model 15 sewing machine heads.
However, note that there are only six digits in the serial numbers in this range ([G]040001 through [G]090000), and the serial number they provided in the post description text has seven digits: "G0487119."
Unfortunately, the serial number cartouche, e.g.:
https://www.singermachines.co.uk/pub/media/upload/image/model_5.jpg
Isn't readable in the single picture they provide of their sewing machine in this post.
Further, the slide and needle plates are hidden by a piece of fabric, so Sandman's excellent Singer domestic model identification tool can't be used, because identifying the style of those is the first step:
https://www.sandman-collectibles.com/id-singer-machines.htm
Nicholas Rain Noe's also excellent Singer identification tool could be used:
https://vssmb.blogspot.com/2011/07/visual-guide-to-identifying-singers.html
However, there's a fairly serious learning curve on using that tool. };-)
Fortunately, the single picture of the actual sewing machine in this post is good enough to tell somebody who has some basic familiarity with vintage Singer sewing machines that this is a model 66.
For instance, the sewing machine head in this post has the famous Red Eye decal set, and Singer put that only on model 66 sewing machine heads, and only at the Elizabethport factory.
A relatively experience eye can also tell that it's a fairly early model 66, because it has the style of stitch length regulator that consists of a thumbscrew on the pillar. However, it's not one of the earliest ones, because instead of a back-clamping presser foot, it has a side-clamping one.
So, I think the serial number provided via text can be trusted. Serial number G0487119 would belong to the serial number block ([G]0443101 through [G]0493100) in the first line excerpted from the G serial number table below:
*snip*
G- 0443101 0493100 66 50000 November 13 1923
G- 0568951 0618950 66 50000 February 5 1924
*snip*
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Barring production problems such factory equipment breakdowns, worker strikes, etc., it probably rolled off of the assembly line some time between the allotment date of its block (November 13 1923), and the allotment date of the next block intended for model 66 sewing machine heads (February 5 1924).
All Singer sewing machine heads with G prefix serial numbers were cast and assembled at the Elizabethport factory, except those annotated in the Notes column as having been assembled elsewhere:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/singer_dating_by_serial_number.html
The Red Eye decal set:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal10
Cabinet Table No. 2 ( Plain with Five Drawers):
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/cabinet_table_no_2-3.html
About Singer model 66:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/66
A 1929 manual for a Singer model 66:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/manuals/singer-model-66-sewing-machine-manual.pdf
About the Elizabethport factory:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/elizabethport
https://www.ericwilliamsblog.com/left-behind-in-elizabeth-the-singer-manufacturing-company-part-1/
https://www.ericwilliamsblog.com/left-behind-in-elizabeth-the-singer-manufacturing-company-part-2/
Here's my collection of vintage sewing machine links for people who stumbled in here from the wilds of the Internet, trying to identify their own vintage Singer (like one-time Collectors Weekly user Weldy who unfortunately never created a post of their own):
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/285089-help-for-vintage-sewing-machines
However, it is a lot to sift through, so if you need help with a vintage sewing machine, you can create a post of your own with up to four pictures.
Either I or somebody else at Collectors Weekly Show & Tell might be able to help you. :-)
This post is related to this one (single picture of the serial number cartouche):
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/273113-antique-sewing-machine