I have accumulated 5 Vintage Singers recently and all for very little money.
I got my Featherweight from Freecycle, that means it was FREE! It works and is in great shape, with case, attachments and manual. I then picked up a 66-16 from Craig's list in a table for $10. The lady upgraded to a more modern machine and had no room for it. It works great and the cabinet is in perfect condition., with original manual and attachments. CL again had a listing for an old singer in a cabinet. It was $40, and turned out to be a working 201 in an Art Deco Cabinet with stool and tons of attachments, but needs rewiring. It has not been used in 26 years I again saw an add on CL for $50 for an old singer in a great cabinet and it is just missing the power cord, but in excellent shape and this turned out to be a 15-91 with tons of attachments, the manual and matching stool. Only the top of the cabinet shows wear. My last was my sought after 301. This is also in a cabinet in pretty good shape, is Mocha in color, and WORKS! It belonged to an Aunt and although they were asking $50 for it, the guy told me to just take it and get it out of his garage. I found all of these by searching Craig's list daily and using the search word "Sewing". I saw tons of expensive vintage machines in bad shape, but there are those who are just trying to clean out the "junk". For a total of $100 and about 40 miles of driving, I have 5 great machines. I will work on refurbushing them with the help of the yahoo vintage group, and this is something all of us can do! Time to get your Vintage machines! Diane |
wow, you have lots of awesome vintage machines
I am still looking for a featherweight and would also like to find a 301 the big sister featherweight |
WOW!! Out here, they are not only hard to find, but the prices are jacked up too :(
I am so happy that you are so lucky in finding such great deals :D:D:D |
Good for you. Great deals and they can be found with patience. Yes some people think because they are old they are worth a fortune. But there were tens of thousand Singer machines so they are not that rare.
Look forward to seeing pictures of your finds and hearing how they are sewing for you. |
LOVE LOVE LOVE MINE!!!
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Wish I could find deals like that but even old treadle machines are lots of money around here when you can find them. Out of my price range but I will keep dreaming.
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Congratulations! Enjoy!!
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