Posted 4 years ago
Jamiebly9
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I am looking to identify the year of this sewing machine. Would this be considered a 66 red eye? Is the badge a rare find?
Singer sewing machine G421114 | ||
| Sewing423 of 2539 |  |  |
Singer sewing machine G421114 | ||
| Sewing423 of 2539 | | |
Posted 4 years ago
Jamiebly9
(1 item)
I am looking to identify the year of this sewing machine. Would this be considered a 66 red eye? Is the badge a rare find?
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It's a model 28 made in 1910.
Hi, Jamiebly9. :-)
Yes, it's a Red Eye.
Unfortunately, the badge on your machine isn't rare. Generally, the only rare Singer badges are the Centennial ones (Texas centennial or Singer centennial):
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/gallery_badges
It would be a good thing if you were to take a closeup picture of the serial number cartouche, e.g.:
https://www.singermachines.co.uk/pub/media/upload/image/model_5.jpg
Either there is a problem with the Singer serial number table (it happens occasionally), or you had a problem in your transcription of the serial number, because serial number "G421114" would fall into this block:
*snip*
G- 383501 433500 28 50000 March 30 1910
*snip*
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Which, if you were to look at the column headers on the serial number table, translates to a block of 50,000 serial numbers starting with 383501, and ending with 433500, allotted March 30, 1910; and all of them should have been model 28 machines.
Your machine is most definitely not a model 28; it very likely is some flavor of model 66 (it lacks the tell-tale trapezoidal access panel that the model 28 has, but it has the Red Eye decal set, which was only ever applied at U.S. factories on the model 66 (the British used the Lotus decal set).
Your cabinet looks like Cabinet Table No. 6:
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/5-6_cab.html