Originally Posted by
crocee
Now this is totally weird. How often do you by a fluke pick up a sewing machine you know absolutely nothing about that has a manufacture allotting date the same as your birthday (well a whole bunch of years before I was thought of). This is so cool. This machine was allotted Sept 20 1917 and only 25000 machines. Its a lot but still better than 50000.
Now to give you an idea of just how prolific Singer manufacturing was back then, for the year 1917 alone, Singer had 7 runs of 127s for a total of 175,000 for that year and that model alone. Wow.
Cari