Ok this is my first attempt at posting a photo so excuse me if its huge...
My parents are in the process of moving and dad asked me if I wanted his SM. He bought it at a yard sale in the 70's for repairing sailboat sails but I know he didn't use it much. It was in the summer cabin and I was the last person who used it (when I was 14). I learned to sew on my neighbors sewing machine and only once ever used my dad's machine to make anything. So, it has some sentimental value to me and it will come live with me, but oh man. I am not a collector (which you would not know based on the growing herd in my *dry and climate controlled* basement.)
I have always assumed it was a red-eye 66 but when I got a more educated look at it this past weekend, it's a Singer 9w-7. I thought, at first, from the front tension that it was a 15 but the the face plate was painted, the column was square and the serial number was in the back. Found the manual with the box of attachments and got the model number. It's not the donut bobbin, so I have that going for me! But it's the first machine I have that takes odd needles and there weren't any extras in the drawer. I think I broke one a few decades ago...
The arm is pretty chewed up from what I assume was whatever you call the rag they wrapped around it to use as a pincushion. Considering it's 100+ years old though, it's not too shabby! Some fascinating history behind it too.
