True Miriam, but I will still maintain that there are too many old machines "out there" for them to have a high value! In 1953, like today, "new" was too high priced, and I would have no more owned this "fancy" machine then, than I do an 1800.00 machine today!!
"Google is my friend..." I found the inflation calculator here:
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/