Mrs. SewNSew

I have a hard time resisting 201's too. And 15's. And 301's. A few others too heehee!

*I was 301 bad last week.

miriam

I was clone bad last week.

melinda1962

Covered in nicotine and crud. First round of sewing machine oil got it better. I would not even take a before pic because it was too sad.

melinda1962

The nose cover and back plate were even black. But it sure reversed a lot. LOL. Even my husband said it looked like a workhorse. It had enough lint under the needle plate that I was surprised it even ran at all. Love it anyway.

melinda1962

Here is the back.

Cari-in-Oly

Um, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that looks like an early 1200.

Cari

miriam

I'm thinking so too. It should clean up and be a good one.

SteveH

If my research is correct, the 1200 is a 201 with a knee lift. Since this one is missing the knee lift is is "almost" a 201, hehe

here is a copy of the manual
http://needlebar.org/pdf/Singer%201200-1%20022.pdf

melinda1962

Wow, Thanks!! I just thought it was neat. I wondered about the openings on the back and what was supposed to be there.

Cari-in-Oly

Yep, it came in a table for tailors. It's a lot more common now to find them naked like this, out of their table. There's a gal on another group who has three of them but it took her a long time to find an original table for one of them. The curious thing about them is that they were listed as a 201 in Singers records up until the last 10 years or so of their production, so there's no way of knowing how many were actually made.

Cari