Posted 2 years ago
Creich1111
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I have a singer no15 the papers say it’s very old would love to know the value.
it comes in a cabinet all attached with a drawer inside and all the pieces it came with
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Hi, Creich1111. :-)
The Collectors Weekly Show & Tell forum is not for valuation.
There is an appraisal service under the Barneby's corporate umbrella; however, it's not free:
https://www.valuemystuff.com/us/appraisal
Or you could consider the free advice of one of the experts at the The International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society (ISMACS) website:
https://ismacs.net/sewing_machine_articles/how_much_is_my_sewing_machine_worth.html
In the meantime, I'll try to tell you more about your VSM.
Serial number AA356850 was one of a block of 35,000 consecutive serial numbers (343986 through 378985) allotted by the Singer central office to one of their factories, and all were intended to be stamped into the beds of model 15 sewing machine heads.
Yours probably rolled off of the assembly line some time between the allotment date of its block (April 23 1925) and that of the next block of serial numbers intended for model 15 sewing machine heads (July 15 1925):
*snip*
AA- 343986 378985 15 35000 April 23 1925
AA- 504036 539035 15 35000 July 15 1925
*snip*
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-aa-series-serial-numbers.html
About the model 15:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/15
Here is a chart of the distiguishing characteristics of the various submodels of the 15 (yours looks like it could be the 15-30):
http://needlebar.org/main/15chart/
I see that you have a hard copy manual, but FWIW, here is a soft copy:
http://needlebar.org/main/sident/15.pdf
The decal set is called Tiffany:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/decals/decal25
I can't tell what the faceplate and back access panel look like, but here is a gallery of them for you to browse:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/gallery_faceplates
Your cabinet looks like the No. 23 Open Side Cabinet:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/open_side_cabinet_23-24.html
All "AA" prefix serial number-stamped sewing machine heads were made at Singer's Elizabethport factory:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/singer_dating_by_serial_number.html
About the Elizabethport factory:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/elizabethport
Your cabinet was probably made at Singer's South Bend, IN factory:
https://orangebeanindiana.com/2019/06/12/south-bends-singer-sewing-machine-company/
Along with some class 15 bobbins, looks like you have some attachments in the center drawer of the cabinet, but it's difficult to discern what they are, because they're a bit jumbled.
One looks like it might be a tuckmarker. Here's a gallery of Singer accessories:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/gallery_accessories
In case I'm forgetting 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 (other than value), just ask them here in a comment on your post. If I don't know the answers, I'll either go back out into the wilds of the Internet to try to find them, or refer you to one of the dedicated VSM forums.
Thank you so much for the info
Creich1111, You're welcome. :-)
The decals look like they're in pretty good shape.