That is the exact same machine and cabinet I inherited from my grandmother in 1978. I hated the funky-looking cabinet for years - just wasn't my style (I was about 30 at that time). Never saw my grandmother sew on it but was thinking she had it from the 1940s or so. Saw just the cabinet in an antiques shop a few years after my "gift" - it was in bad shape but had a price of over $400 (early 1980s. Needless to say my cabinet started looking more attractive to me. The machine and cabinet have been in a climate-controlled storage area since we moved to NC in 2003 - just didn't have the room at that time. In the past 10 years I've added quilt a few portable antique Singer machines so am thinking I need to recue it.
The 201 model is a great machine - what I learned to sew on in Home Ec in the late 1950s. Those older machines sew perfectly straight seams - better than my much newer (and more expensive) computer sewing machines!!
Sandy in Mooresville, NC - haven't posted in quite some time - hello to everyone