Originally Posted by shelburn
Am pulling my hair out searching the Singer websites trying to find out the age and manufacture date of my Model 348, serial no. 81583-900 "made in Great Britain AIN". All the serial numbers seem to begin with a letter and nothing comes up for this. Have searched Ismacs, Singer Co. and Ask.
Can anyone give me suggestions on where else to look!!
Shelia
I poked around over at the Vintage Singers Yahoo group. One of the first mentions of the 348 was a woman getting hers new in 1967. That is probably as close as you are going to get for a birthday for it. Most of the records were destroyed.
The lists of serial numbers that are provided on the Singer site were compiled by sewing machine lovers and sewing machine historians. The Singer Co. only provides the searchable database, They didn't do the nitty gritty work. We can thank all of the fine folks at ISMACS and many OSMG's - male and female - for the lists of numbers.