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    Posted 6 months ago

    keramikos
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    If you blink you might miss it, because it's a very brief sighting, hence the blurry hand on the left side of the image.

    In the first half hour of the film, Dustin Hoffman's character decides to purge the apartment of his departed wife's effects. He goes room to room gathering items, and one of them is a Singer model 221, AKA the Featherweight.

    IMAGE CREDITS:

    The first image is my own low-tech screen capture from a recent showing of the movie on Turner Classic Movies

    The second image is from the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society (ISMACS) website

    REFERENCES:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079417/

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

    https://singer-featherweight.com/

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    1. fortapache fortapache, 6 months ago
      Those are among the most desirable of Singers.
    2. keramikos, 6 months ago
      fortapache, Yup.

      Quilters especially love them, because a lot of them travel with their sewing machines. Yeah, it's a thing.

      If you're gonna travel with your sewing machine, it's a lot more pleasant to deal with a machine that weighs only eleven pounds, versus something like a Singer model 201 which weighs like thirty-two pounds:

      https://singer-featherweight.com/blogs/schoolhouse/how-does-the-featherweight-compare-to-other-singer-machines

      Featherweights are commanding some crazy prices nowadays.

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