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Permalink Reply by QuilterBridget on July 19, 2011 at 6:38pm

My oldest machine is from the early 40's...WW2 era.  The metal is army green!

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Permalink Reply by Pam Bellis on July 20, 2011 at 6:50am

I think that my oldest machine is the treadle that belonged to my grandmother. The pattern on the machine is the "Red Eye". A few years ago I cleaned it up and put a new belt on it to make a quilt for my parents. If I remember correctly it was 1918. I can't get to it to recheck the date, there are things sitting on top of it.  I learned to sew on this machine. My grandmother would do the treadle and I would do the sewing. I collect vintage sewing machines, mostly Singers.

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Permalink Reply by Phyllis A Friloux on July 20, 2011 at 8:24am

My fw was born May 24, 1938. She is 1 year older than my mother.

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Permalink Reply by Alice Dexter on July 20, 2011 at 4:11pm

My oldest machine is a Singer Featherweight made during their centennial anniversary year 1951, complete with commemorative seal on the body of the machine. I take it in for cleaning and oiling once a year as it still works great. I even have all the original extras that came with it including the suitcase styled carrying case.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Boswinkel on July 20, 2011 at 4:44pm

My oldest machine(s) is(are) treadle Singers. My parents assumed (correctly) that I would not be able to pierce my fingers without machine-powered assistance.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Bartnik Warnke on July 20, 2011 at 4:59pm

I have a treadle sewing machine that was my great, great-grandmother's.  I believe it is from 1901.  The story is that my great, great-grandfather bought it for her as a wedding gift. 

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Permalink Reply by QuilterBridget on July 21, 2011 at 10:22am

How do you all know the year your machine was made?  I wonder if there's some kind of stamp on mine; I've never really looked.  Mine has not been altered in any way (except for stuff like new belts and wheels).  I'd sure like to know the exact year; I just assumed it's from the early 40's because of the army green color.  YUCK!  But it sure knows how to do a perfect straight stitch!

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Redmond on September 16, 2011 at 10:07pm

If you have a Singer (which is the only ones that I have that is old) there is a website where you can look up your serial number and it will tell you when and where it was manufactured. Hope that this helps

 

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Permalink Reply by Lana Laqua on October 21, 2011 at 7:14pm

I know with singers somewhere on the body is a serial #.  on a FW it's on the bottom, so just turn it over and look,  and there is a website that will date singers.  But I don't know about dating other machine models.

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Permalink Reply by Cheri Foster on August 2, 2013 at 5:46pm

Bridget.  With a singer you can find out the year with the serial number.  I believe it is the same with most other older machines.  I did a search online for the Necchi I had with the serial number and had found out it was a 1951.  My singer featherweight I know the date because it is a centennial and had the sticker on the front

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Permalink Reply by Linda Grogan on July 21, 2011 at 1:48pm

I have a singer about 18 yrs old.  I'm taking it in for repair.  It's noting up on the bottom and very loose tension!

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Permalink Reply by Phyllis A Friloux on July 21, 2011 at 6:52pm

Bridget, for those of us who have singers, there is a serial number stamped on the bottom of them; the singer website has a list of serial numbers and the dates they were released to the public. We call it our machine's birthday, but actually, the company made thousands of a model over several months then would release the group to retailers; thus resulting in the birthdate. Don't know who your manufacturer is, but you may have the same situation.

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