Originally Posted by Debbie B
I love that Rocketeer...beautiful. I think I have the third one down from the top. It's my husband's great grandmother's. The cabinet & the treadle fell apart when they took it up from his mom's basement after his mom died several years ago. It's in my guest room. From the serial I looked up on the Singer site it says that it was made in 1894. The machine was used a lot and the decals are worn in some areas, but it's still pretty. I've never know what to do with it. I put a picture below. Your machines are just as gorgeous as I thought that they would be...hope you post the pictures of the other ones soon. Thanks.
Debbie
That is a nice 27 and I have always loved that decal pattern(Tiffany Gingerbread)! It is one you do not see on the 27's that much.
The machine you looking at is a Singer 9W that was made after Issac Singer purchased Wheeler and Wilson in 1905. The first batch of these were made from the left over parts they had when the D9 was in production and this one here was an actual Singer casting that a few dimensions were changed so that they could fit the Singer cabinets. I have my eyes on a drawing room cabinet at a antique store here in town and when the seller comes off of the price a bit more I am going to get it and put this machine into it. This is one of the nicest 9W's I have seen and it deserves the best cabinet I can find!
Billy