Rose_P

In our major metropolitan area usually on Craigslist there are several, and the prices are totally random. I would say that shopping for a treadle is an adventure, and the prices vary wildly. You have to do a bit of research and get a feel for what you want and then patiently wade through a lot of rusty old garbage and misinformed sellers who imagine that their precious antique, non-working Singer with parts missing is rare and worth hundreds of dollars. If you check the ISMAC site you will see that there were literally hundreds of thousands of some of these models made over a period of decades, and even today they are not terribly rare. Working 66 machines are pretty much everywhere you look, except when you want one. Sooner or later you will get a chance at a good one. If you are not in a populous area, they may be fewer and farther between, but not that long ago virtually every female and quite a few males sewed, and they could buy this precious commodity on time, which meant that it wasn't just the rich people who had them. Some machines became boat anchors, some were melted down as scrap metal, but a good many of them are still out there, and you will be amazed at how pretty a well-tuned Singer 66 can stitch.

Bonnie Hunter has a nice list of information resources on this page (scroll down near the bottom): http://quiltville.blogspot.com/p/my-...-machines.html Good luck.