My departed Mom gave me my featherweight. It's a thing of beauty. It was a brand new or almost brand new one.. Seems someone bought it and stuck it in the closet.. never did use it. . either someone wanted them to sew and they didn't want to, or they thought they wanted to, but soon discovered they did not.. whatever.. when I got it probably in the late 70's the attachments were still wrapped with tissue paper.. It had the book, oil can, screw driver, tape measure and every other thing that came with it.. It's my favorite machine of all.
Then I got two more in a sale.. I bought the "lot" for just $300.. Got a beautiful Bernina 1230, a Bernina surger, a Singer 301, an embroidery machine with it's extras and plenty of designs and the two featherweights... What a bargin! A once in a lifetime thing for sure.
I'm set with wonderful machines for the rest of my life!