Originally Posted by
Caroline S
An interesting note for you Tammi. One of the accessories for the 222K is an embroidery hoop, the Singer part number is 171074. Also there were only about 1800 free arm machines were sold in the U.S. out of about 10,000 a total estimated production. My source for the information is "Featherweight 221 - The Perfect Portable" by Nancy Johnson-Srebo. If you have a Featherweight you have to get this book. The 222K is the Holy Grail of the Featherweight world.
I'm looking around and keeping my ear to the ground. I've put the word out about those two attachments. I saw that they were the only ones missing out of the box (that I didn't have here in other boxes) The prices on them are nuts though.
I had that book in my hands at one point. The only reason I didn't buy it is that most of the information I saw in it, I'd seen on the Internet somewhere, and being a computer geek, I'm pretty used to asking Google before I pull out a book.
Nancy's book said 10,000? I read 120,000 in a FW book I had here back in January. There are 15000 in the EM series of serial numbers alone...
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mach...l-numbers.html
Holy Grail is exactly what I called the 222 before we found one. When we found it, that's what I said to him, after the shock wore off.
Originally Posted by
chichimamma
Oh! It's a great feeling to find one, mine was at a Antique flea market that they put on about four times a year at Ky. fairgrounds. We haven't ever found one but my husband ask a dealer if he knew anyone who had one. Well the man said he had a couple, he could bring in the next day-could I come back? Wasn't that about the silliest question you ever heard? I now own a pristine, case and all pieces FW, even the original tube of oil(dried up) for $200!
That's so funny that he wouldn't think you'd come back for it. I'd love to see a pic! I haven't had a chance to clean this one up, other than getting her sewing. I had a couple of busy days trying to earn back the money I paid out to adopt her.
Originally Posted by
ewecansew
I do leave her out in the travel trailer. She has weathered just fine--our weather is more like Calgary. We live in north Central BC---south of PG. I would be way more concerned with Vancouver weather--way too wet for me--I don't like webbed feet.
The birthdate for mine is Mar. 14, 1955---EK327124 and my MIL's-now owned by SIL is Mar.2, 1956--EL179751.
Yeah, I used to summer in Vancouver with my mom, that sort of moisture is tough on a prairie girl. I had bad hair days the entire summer.
So you don't tend to get the really hard freezes then that we do. That's what hurts them. I once saw a shed full of the old black machines, and tons of them had the alligator finish from freezing and thawing. Poor things, I wanted to rescue them all, but he wanted real money for them.
How lucky for you to have 2 of them in the family. I think I've decided to call her Billy. Billy's serial number is EM235013 or EM236013, I'm not 100% sure,.. but I think I thought it was a 5 the night I got her. DH swears it's a 6.