Singer Penguin WF
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It is true that they can be found at garage sales -- I found two of them at one sale a few years back. It was actually an estate/garage sale. The lady had been a sewing instructor for the local Singer shop in the 1950's. Anyway, one worked fine, and I sold it on Ebay. The other one didn't work, and I gave it to my "fix-it" friend who had been looking for one for years. She took off the outer shell and found that a spring was detached, hooked it up again, and was good to go. I will be her friend forever.
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If not for reading and learning from this Board, I would have NO idea which item was causing the bidding to go up. That being said, anyone who would pay $300+ for four buttonholers has no idea what they're bidding on. I've bought buttonholers (new) for $5. I would never pay that much for that walking foot! A machine, maybe, well, I don't know, I really have more machines that I have room right now!
Jeanette
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Not Joe or a collector, but the buttonhole attachment in the turquoise case goes later machines and not the Featherweight. The turquoise case was for straight shank machines, and there is one in a pink case that was for slant shank machines.
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Green or light green boxed button hollers is for low shank machines,
Red or pink boxed button hollers are for slant shank machines.
I didn't know the newer ones won't work on the FW. Never tried them on ours.
I don't have any pics of a Penguin WF (I don't have one either). The best one I've seen is the last pic in the GW auction.
Maybe April1930s would have one. { http://april1930s.com/ }.
Joe
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