Posted 4 years ago
rondabolton
(2 items)
Just bought this from a cousin, don't know anything about it except 1910. It comes with the treadle cabinet. 2 drawers on each side
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Posted 4 years ago
rondabolton
(2 items)
Just bought this from a cousin, don't know anything about it except 1910. It comes with the treadle cabinet. 2 drawers on each side
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not sure why they turned upside down.
Hi, rondabolton. :-)
The reason that your pictures are oddly oriented is that the Collectors Weekly Show & Tell software doesn't play nicely with all photo sources:
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Rotate your photos. After the shoot, be sure to rotate your photos if needed so they appear right-side up. Images shot with a smartphone or tablet sometimes do not appear properly rotated on our site, so you may want to download photos to your computer first and then rotate them using your computer’s photo-editing software before uploading.
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https://www.collectorsweekly.com/answer-desk/photo-and-scanning-tips
That's good advice if you have a desktop computer, but a lot of people don't have one of those these days, so we'll muddle through with the images as they are.
Worth the $20? A difficult subject. Valuation isn't done at CW S&T. There's an appraisal link at the top of the page, but it would cost you more than you paid for this item.
It's probably best to consider the advice of one of the experts at the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society (ISMACS):
http://ismacs.net/sewing_machine_articles/how_much_is_my_sewing_machine_worth.html
FYI, here is a model 27 in fabulous condition. It's so nice that I suspect somebody re-japanned it, and applied replacement decals (sorry about the Google Preview link):
Singer 27 & 127 Parts | The Old Singer Shop
https://images.app.goo.gl/sxj5BNW9DQT7Somo6
Anyway, I thought you might want to know a bit more about your machine.
As you stated, the vintage is indeed 1910. That can be confirmed by consulting the Singer serial number tables at ISMACS. Serial number G020407 would fall into this group of serial numbers:
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G- 000001 025000 27 25000 January 1 1910
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http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Which translates to: a block of 25,000 consecutive serial numbers (000001 through 025000) was allotted by the central office January 1st of 1910 to one of the factories (Singer had many factories world-wide), and all of them were destined to be stamped into the beds of model 27 machines.
That allotment date isn't the date of manufacture. It would take the factory some time to work their way through that block of numbers, however, it's probably not too big of an assumption to think that they'd made all 25,000 before the allotment date of the next block of numbers destined to be stamped into the beds of model 27 machines:
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G- 100001 150000 27 50000 January 8 1910
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That your machine belongs to the VS1, VS2, VS3, 27, 28, 127 and 128 family of Singer machines is supported by your pictures. It has all of the tell-tale characteristics of a member of that family of machines.
That is to say, it has a trapezoidal access panel, a flat face plate, a circular needle/throat plate, and split slides. The high-mounted bobbin winder is actually more typical of models 127 and 128.
About that family of machines:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/28
I'll give you links for both model 27 and model 127/128 manuals:
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/Singer%20VS%202%20Model%2027%20Manual.pdf
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/manuals/127-128.pdf
Your decal set is called the Sphinx:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal12
I actually couldn't find an exact match for your face plate and rear access panel at the singersewinginfo dot co dot uk site.
If you want to do them a nice turn, you could offer them pictures of yours:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/contact
Your cabinet is probably one of these two:
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/cabinet_table_no_2-3.html
About the factory:
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/singer_dating_by_serial_number.html
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/
In case I forgot anything, here is a collection of vintage sewing machine links:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/285089-vintage-sewing-machine-help
But it's a lot to sift through, so if you have questions, you can just ask them here in a comment.
Yes it is. Resize your photos smaller and it helps to make them larger in the horizontal plane than the vertical.
fortapache, Thanks for this tip. More and more, phones and tablets will be photograph sources here.
fortapache, Ya know, I had to jog my memory a bit, because I seldom post nowadays.
Early on, I recall that I did have an occasional problem with image orientation, and that might have been because I was taking pictures using my smart phone, and then transferring them via USB to my hybrid for posting on CW.
It usually was solved by trimming the image a bit.
FYI, I downloaded copies of all four of rondabolton's images in this post so that I could look at a few things via editing in Paint (yes, I am a dinosaur) on Windows 10.
Regardless of their size in bytes, all reflected 2880 x 2160px.
I checked a few of my post images, and the pixels varied, but then I had cropped all of them to get rid of extraneous things.
Here's a pixel calculator for anybody who's interested:
https://toolstud.io/photo/megapixel.php
So, rondabolton's images all would have an aspect ratio of 1.33:
https://toolstud.io/photo/megapixel.php?compare=video&calculate=uncompressed&width=2880&height=2160