Originally Posted by
Skyangel
ISMACS has information about it and has the manual for free download:
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...e-manuals.html
I think $40 is a great price! It is a very cute machine, and I'd like to see pictures of the 27 with rose decals. I just got my first treadle, an "Improved Family" or 15 (the first class 15) with apple blossom decals. Looking at your pictures, I think that the extra needle plate that came with it probably came from a 12 as it is a small rectangle. Would you measure it for me sometime?
Here are two pictures of the Singer which I think is a 27 with the Rose Decals and 2 pictures of the bobbins from these two machines. The larger one belongs to the 27 and the smaller one(the one on the right) is from the Singer 12. On the bobbin plate of the 12 it reads Pattened April 22, 1879. The dimensions of the 12 are 6 x 12 and the dimensions of the 27 are 7 x 14.