Strange machine seen in the wild
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Strange machine seen in the wild
While garage shopping yesterday, I ran across a Singer, supposedly made in 1910. It was the gorilla finish that had been painted. Everything was a mocha choco brown including the badge. Lady said it had never been painted, very sure about that, but seemed strange that the badge was painted too. And it had a Westinghouse motor on it. Her explantion for that was that Westinghouse put all the motors on Singers when they first got motors. I passed since I've already got too many machines needing attention already. She was really selling to someone else that was seemed interested.
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I could be wrong (it's been known to happen!! ) but don't believe Singer made a crinkle finish until the 40's.... and they didn't make "brown" machines until the 50's, and those would have been the 300-400 series. Why would they make a brass plate and then paint it?
Pppppffffffffffftttttttttttt!! I want some of what she was smokin'!!
Pppppffffffffffftttttttttttt!! I want some of what she was smokin'!!
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