Posted 2 years ago
NikkiPYR
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1910 Singer Sewing Machine G600 series, cabinets and sewing machine are both in good condition.
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Posted 2 years ago
NikkiPYR
(4 items)
1910 Singer Sewing Machine G600 series, cabinets and sewing machine are both in good condition.
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Hi, NikkiPYR. :-)
Cool. It looks like a model 15, probably a model 15-30.
Anyway, if its serial number is in the "G600" range and it was made in 1910, then it must belong to the block of G serial numbers in the first line I excerpted from the G serial numbers table:
*snip*
G- 638801 688800 15 50000 August 24 1910
G- 742501 746500 15-30 4000 September 17 1910 Factory #5
G- 803701 828700 15 25000 November 15 1910
*snip*
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
The reason I excerpted those additional lines was to give you an idea of when in 1910 it probably rollled off of the assembly line, i. e., sometime between the allotment date of that first block of serial numbers (August 24 1910) and the allotment date of the third block (November 15 1910).
I don't know what that mysterious "Factory #5" is. If it was anything like the Montreal factory, it probably just did assembly, and the castings were done at one of the big factories (in this case, Elizabethport):
ELIZABETHPORT
G-1,000,000 to G-2,500,000 1910 1912
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/singer_dating_by_serial_number.html
About the model 15:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/15
About the characteristics of the various minor submodels of 15:
http://needlebar.org/main/15chart/
Your decal set looks like Tiffany:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal25
Your faceplate looks like (Simanco 15406):
https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/83ff29e07a6af01508286e3ec98a27cc4801d8ee/c8730/images/gallery/gf15k-240x360.jpg
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/gallery_faceplates
Your cabinet is Cabinet Table No. 2:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/cabinet_table_no_2-3.html
Here is a user manual:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/manuals/ha-1-ib-wgh-instruction-manual.pdf
About the 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/
In case I forgot anything, here is my collection of vintage sewing machine links:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/285089-help-for-vintage-sewing-machines
However, it's a lot to sift through, so if you have any questions, just ask them here in a comment. If I don't know the answer, I'll go back out into the wilds of the Internet and try to find answers.
Thank you so much, The serial number is 6007180 does it make a difference in the value on where it was assembled? I also have my grandmother’s sewing machine similar to this, I’ll post pictures it’s great getting more info about them. Thank you.
Hi again, NikkiPYR. :-)
You're welcome.
Thank you for providing the exact serial number, because it does make a difference, not only in age, but the model (however, not value, unfortunately).
Serial number G6007180 was one of a block of 5,000 consecutive serial numbers ([G]6003106 through [G]6008105) allotted by the central office to the Elizabethport factory February 1918 and all were destined to be stamped into the beds of model 115 machines:
G- 6003106 6008105 115 5000 February 6 1918
G- 6129456 6134455 115 5000 March 27 1918
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Normally, it would be a relatively safe assumption to make that your machine rolled off of the assembly line between the allotment date of that first block of numbers and the allotment date of the next block destined for model 115 machines, but in 1918, World War I was still in progress.
Singer, like a lot of businesses, supported the war effort, so your machine might not have been made until after the war was over and they resumed normal production.
The model 115 actually occupies an interesting little corner of Singer history:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/115
Unfortunately, the mode 115 is not rare.
From what I can see in the combined serial number tables from ISMACS, Singer made many thousands of the model 115 machines from about 1912 through 1924.
Please do create a post with pictures of your grandmother's sewing machine; we'd love to see it. <3
Thanks- I posted my grandmother’s sewing machine
NikkiPYR, I see it. Thank you. :-)
Hi again, NikkiPYR. :-)
I decided to add some figures.
I totaled all of the model 115 sewing machines in the ISMACS Singer serial number tables and got just over a third of a million. The total number of sewing machines of all models produced 1851-1971 is between ninety six and and ninety seven million.
Keep in mind that while Singer's records are the most complete of any of the vintage sewing machine makers, they aren't perfect.