Originally Posted by
miriam
LOL maybe they had some of each left over so they used them or maybe they were trying to see if they could do decals...
Could be!
It has a 1942 penny in the needle bar area. It was there when I got the machine and I have left it. I’ve heard that there was a practice of putting a new penny in the Singer machines by repair shops that electrified old machines, to indicate what year the machine was electrified, but I don’t know if there is any truth to that. I don’t see why knowing the year of electrification would be all that important to anyone, and having a penny in there behind the face plate could foul up the works, so I imagine that was just a rumor. Although, there is enough room for the penny to rest in there without touching any of the working parts, so who knows?
I think it’s more likely that since the slot for the take-up lever looks so much like a coin slot, some poor child probably lost their penny when Mom wasn’t looking.
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