Posted 2 years ago
Barbrn1002
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Vintage sewing machine. It belonged to my grandmother. My dad had it after she died. He refinished it, and it sat in his dining room for 30 years! He passed 5 years ago, and I inherited it from him. It went from Ohio down here to North Carolina with me last year. It’s such a great memory, both of my grandparents and my dad!
Hi, Barbrn1002. :-)
That's beautiful from a purely esthetic standpoint, but the fact that it belonged to your grandparents, and was refinished by your father? Priceless. <3
You didn't specify the maker, but I suspect it's a Singer. Certainly the cabinet is a Singer, because when I zoom in on the drawer pulls, they have Singer written on them.
Also, I suspect that the treadle ends have the Singer emblem on them, e.g.:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/images/singer-treadle-legs.jpg
And last but not necessarily least, you have a Singer puzzle box. Here is the patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US397980
There were more than a few styles of the puzzle box, because they were filled with attachments, not all of which worked with all of the extant models of sewing machine heads:
http://needlebar.org/main/puzzles/index.html
Here is a similar Singer cabinet with what's known as a "coffin top" cover." This one has only three drawers, unlike yours which has five, but it has the same style of drawer pulls and the decoration on the coffin top cover:
https://estatesales.org/online-auctions/lot-65-1889-singer-vs-54786873
Here's one with the same decoration (although not as beautifully refinished as yours):
https://www.flickriver.com/photos/spidra/sets/72157603792642203/
Your cabinet is a variation on Cabinet Table No. 2:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/cabinet_table_no_2-3.html
We'd love to see the sewing machine head installed in your cabinet.
You're allowed up to four pictures per post. Beautiful as the cabinet is, I think the first picture of that would suffice for that.
If you could delete at least one cabinet picture, and add a couple of pictures of the sewing machine head, that would be great.
In fact, one picture of the entire front of the sewing machine head, and one close up of the serial number cartouche would be fantastic. :_)
Here is what the serial number cartouche looks like, e.g.:
https://www.singermachines.co.uk/pub/media/upload/image/model_5.jpg
FYI, the serial number will allow us to pin down the age of the sewing machine head:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-sewing-machine-serial-number-database.html
No model number information is available in the no prefix serial number table, but if we have a good picture of the front of the machine, we can figure it out.
In fact, here is a tool that will allow almost anybody to identify about eighteen different models of domestic Singer sewing machines, and some submodels thereof:
https://www.sandman-collectibles.com/id-singer-machines.htm