Originally Posted by
SteveH
the older the better. Prefer 1800's, prefer pre-1885 specifically.
I'm almost positive there were no buttonhole attachments til the late 1930's. Factories had buttonhole machines prior to that but people who sewed at home had to sew them by hand. This
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Singer-Butto...item53f8f13c39 is the earliest Singer buttonholer that I know of. The instruction book with mine is dated 1939.