Singer 15-88 or 15-89
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Singer 15-88 or 15-89
Hubby went to an auction house, less than a mile away and came home with a treadle for me. I will need to do something with the cabnit but sewing machine I haven't tried yet. The book in the cabnit says 15-88 / 15-89 so not sure what the diff is to my 15-91??? AD971307
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Have you checked the age of it? I have one from 1902 with a big hand wheel that I spent hours fixing up. LOVE IT best of all of the 15s I have. I think it is a 15-30. I encourage you to get her going. The hard part on mine was getting off all the dried up oil.
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This one is not a 15-30. This decal pattern was not used that far back and a 15-30 did not have reverse like this one.
I had one just like it (still have the cabinet) and converted it to electric (which turned it into a 15-90 as that is the only difference) and gave it to a budding seamstress. She loves the machine and it sews wonderfully.
I have a 15-30 also, with the tiffany decal pattern.
I had one just like it (still have the cabinet) and converted it to electric (which turned it into a 15-90 as that is the only difference) and gave it to a budding seamstress. She loves the machine and it sews wonderfully.
I have a 15-30 also, with the tiffany decal pattern.
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This one is not a 15-30. This decal pattern was not used that far back and a 15-30 did not have reverse like this one.
I had one just like it (still have the cabinet) and converted it to electric (which turned it into a 15-90 as that is the only difference) and gave it to a budding seamstress. She loves the machine and it sews wonderfully.
I have a 15-30 also, with the tiffany decal pattern.
I had one just like it (still have the cabinet) and converted it to electric (which turned it into a 15-90 as that is the only difference) and gave it to a budding seamstress. She loves the machine and it sews wonderfully.
I have a 15-30 also, with the tiffany decal pattern.
Last edited by miriam; 05-14-2014 at 03:11 AM.
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there are so many Industrial 15 models - way, way more than the domestic ones. I think that is one reason so many sellers list the domestic 15's as "industrial" since there are a lot of truly industrial 15's.
Sorry I got confused, but if this machine was much older one, and that would make it a 15-30, unless it was even older . . . the 15-30 was made up until the early 30's, and then the 15-(88-91) series was made, with very little variation to the domestic machines in between.
This is a neat list - scroll down to the 15's section and you can see all the different variations of the Model 15 for industrial use.
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...sses-1-99.html
Sorry I got confused, but if this machine was much older one, and that would make it a 15-30, unless it was even older . . . the 15-30 was made up until the early 30's, and then the 15-(88-91) series was made, with very little variation to the domestic machines in between.
This is a neat list - scroll down to the 15's section and you can see all the different variations of the Model 15 for industrial use.
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...sses-1-99.html
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