Posted 14 years ago
maddysnanny
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I have found in my mother's things, a Certificate of purchase of a Singer Sewing Machine from 1914, which my grandfather purchased for his wife. It has the cert. number, the cost, the machine number and the style number. I am not absolutely sure of the handwriting - on the machine number - it looks like an F, but could be a T followed by 7 numbers. Purchased in Willesden Green, London Eng. Any ideas??, style number looks like 66 with a little 2 then 3Dr C T Maybe someone has something similar??
http://www.ismacs.net/searchresults.html?cx=partner-pub-5817620528941553%3A68ag37-c2uv&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=1914+Certificate+of+purchase&siteurl=www.ismacs.net%252Fhome.html#820
You might find some answers here.
Backfilling, but not necessarily solving.
The serial number looks to me like it might be "F5835682," which would indeed belong to a block of serial numbers intended for model 66(K) sewing machine heads:
F- 5764125 5844124 66K 80000 July/December 1914 Clydebank, Scotland
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-f-series-serial-numbers.html
The problem is that the allocation date for that serial number block is July/December 1914, yet the date on the certificate is January 20th, 1914. Hmmm.
I checked for other serial number blocks with different prefixes that might apply to "5835682," but got bupkes.
I suppose it's possible that the Kilbowie/Clydbank factory might have been ahead of schedule. WWI hadn't yet started in January, 1914.
Or perhaps the certificate was a pre-paid order.
Or perhaps the serial number tables are wrong.
Oh well.