It goes back further. My mom wasn't born until 1927, so someone had the machine before that. I know one of my mom's older sisters had it, because we got it from her, but even she was born in 1906. So, who knows who was the original owner. My mom got the machine because she needed to give my sister and me a machine of our own to keep us from playing with her Elna. Linda was 8 and I was 7 when we got the machine, which was in our bedroom. The motor went on sometime in the next 3 years, when the parents were convinced that we would not put the needle through our fingers. I quit using it at about 11, when my mom got a new Viking and we were allowed to use that machine. It had embroidery cams--how could the Singer compete?