OK. Here is my Singer Redeye
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OK. Here is my Singer Redeye
She is not cleaned up yet and is missing the tension assembly, spool pin and belt. She came in a 7 drawer cabinet. Can't wait for good working in the garage weather so I can R&R her cabinet. All I have done so far is remove and polish the face plate and back plate.
Her serial number is G4295080. She was allotted on 14 Dec 1915. If I had been with my DD when she went to look and buy her, I would had offered less than the $150.00 that we paid.
Her serial number is G4295080. She was allotted on 14 Dec 1915. If I had been with my DD when she went to look and buy her, I would had offered less than the $150.00 that we paid.
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She is really pretty, and the plates polished up beautifully!
Lesson time! See how the "I, N, G" in "Singer" are partially gone and/or silvered? That's a result of "pin rash" from wrapping a piece of wool or other cloth around the arm of the machine to stick pins into while sewing...*MANY* of our vintage/antique ladies have this "syndrome".
Lesson time! See how the "I, N, G" in "Singer" are partially gone and/or silvered? That's a result of "pin rash" from wrapping a piece of wool or other cloth around the arm of the machine to stick pins into while sewing...*MANY* of our vintage/antique ladies have this "syndrome".
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Several of my vintage machines still had the peice of cloth used for pin still on then with the pin rash under-----I try to think of the stories they tell-----if they were still perfect we would know that they hadn't been used...with love!
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harrishs, several of mine have pin rash...and I love them all the more for it! It tells me that while they are wonderful, special girls to me, that I honestly don't need, but want, they were at one time tools to a harried housewife who made her family's clothing on them, meant to be used without regard to whether or not the decals would still be there 100 years from that time!
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She is really pretty, and the plates polished up beautifully!
Lesson time! See how the "I, N, G" in "Singer" are partially gone and/or silvered? That's a result of "pin rash" from wrapping a piece of wool or other cloth around the arm of the machine to stick pins into while sewing...*MANY* of our vintage/antique ladies have this "syndrome".
Lesson time! See how the "I, N, G" in "Singer" are partially gone and/or silvered? That's a result of "pin rash" from wrapping a piece of wool or other cloth around the arm of the machine to stick pins into while sewing...*MANY* of our vintage/antique ladies have this "syndrome".
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