My husband and I have been thinking of buying an older machine, he wants to do some heavy duty sewing as he is affiliated with the SCA (he's into blacksmithing, etc) ...
Anyway I digress ...after seeing everyone's machine ... I decided to bite the bullet and go buy one we had seen previously.
I'm posting pictures ... I know this machine was made from 1911 to 1917 (not 100% sure on the ending year), but finally found a model number. I'm slightly upset that someone messed up the cabinet (as it's not working correctly, but that's what my hubby's for). The stained the cabinet and got it into the chain that works the machine up and down ... plus a few other places (hubby is not happy at all).
ANYWAY ... here are pictures:
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(Please ignore the bags in my kitchen)
ANYWAY the model number we found is 172203.
Any more info on this would be appreciated. We're still doing research. We purchased this at an antique store for $75. They had a older singer (electric) for $45. We also went to Goodwill today where we found an Alden (with the certificate from 1950) along with tons of accessories for $100 (priced for $200 but today they had 50% off). I wanted it but couldn't afford it ... they also had two other ones, one was a production factoryline Singer (badly in need of major TLC, needed rewiring) for $25 and we almost bought it, but felt we didn't have time or money to invest in it.
Hubby is very interested in finding manuals and needles for this. The one we bought is in pretty decent condition ... just needs a bit of work ...
So tell me what you think about Franky :D