Originally Posted by
SteveH
MY Grandmothers Singer 66 treadle. When my Grandmother passed my uncle "cleared out the junk" in their 120 year old western NY house..... ALL of this went to the local landfill.
Singer 66 redeye Treadle in 6 drawer oak cabinet
19th century wood burning kitchen stove (original to the house)
~300' quarter sawn oak 6" baseboards
5 boxes of old tools.....
100+ year old oak kitchen table & chairs set (original to the house)
My grandfathers old book collection
This literally made me feel sick. He could have at least posted a classified ad in the free section so that the stuff wouldn't go to the landfill. He would have saved himself the trouble of carting it. And why did he rip out the baseboards? Or had they already been ripped out during a previous renovation? (That would be pretty crazy, too.)
I've had 3 machines "get away". I gave away two vintage riccars when I bought my 401 about 10 years ago. One was a 15 clone, and the other was a green and white zz machine, all metal except for the side/nose cover. And my very first vintage machine, a Singer 15 in a mahogany cabinet was stolen when I loaned it to a friend. But none of these are really "special", so I'm not still kicking myself over them.