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    Posted 2 years ago

    myrandam82
    (6 items)

    Last one for now. Same story as the rest. One of Mom's hidden treasures. Don't know anything about it, wish I did. Everything seems to move-not brave enough to try to sew it.

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    1. keramikos, 2 years ago
      myrandam82, Yes indeed, they called that style of cover a "coffin." };-)

      Serial number B707887 was one of a block of 20,400 consecutive serial numbers ([B]695101 through [B]715500) that was alotted by the central office to the Elizabethport factory, and all were intended to be stamped into the beds of model 28 sewing machine heads.

      Yours probably rolled off of the assembly line some time between the allotment date of its block (November 14 1904), and the allotment date of the next block of serial numbers intended for model 28 sewing machine heads:

      *snip*

      B- 695101 715500 28 20400 November 14 1904

      B- 890001 901000 28 11000 Feburary 6 1905

      *snip*

      https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-b-series-serial-numbers.html

      https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/singer_dating_by_serial_number.html

      About the model 28:

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/28

      The decal set is called Victorian:

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal08

      The "coffin" lid and case (scroll down):

      https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/gallery_cases

      A manual:

      https://archive.org/details/singer-28-user-manual-en/page/1/mode/2up

      About Singer's Elizabethport (NJ) 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/

      If you want to user yours, but are feeling apprehensive about it, then you need to talk to CW user watchsearcher. She has a Singer vibrating shuttle that she restored, and actively uses:

      https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/297921-1902-singer-treadle-machine-and-2021-sew
    2. Watchsearcher Watchsearcher, 2 years ago
      Keramikos, you are so kind to mention my sweet old Singer….it is such a treat to sew on it!
      My advise to Myrandam82 is to read a manual to learn the various parts, make sure the bobbin is filled and installed correctly, make sure the machine is threaded correctly, belt tension good, get some scrap fabric and give it a shot.
      Likely, the first stitches might result in tangles of thread due to the tension being out of adjustment. That’s an easy fix so just tweak the tension till it’s right.
      I was extremely lucky with mine because the tension was set perfectly; it was as if the previous owner finished sewing a garment, closed the lid and no one touched it for decades until I sewed with it!
      Myrandam82. I hope you will be so lucky.
      Be sure to keep us updated!

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