Originally Posted by Jeanette Frantz

I really lucked out on mine... it was and is in absolutely mint condition (1954), looked like it had never been used! My son paid $50! Then about a year and a half later, he found a Singer 403A, in extremely good condition -- it doesn't look like it's been used much at all, sews great -- he paid $41! I inherited a National Two Spool Machine, and am currently working on a Davis Minnesota Model A for my cousin. She has the irons and other stuff from my great-grandmother's machine, and I bought another off e-bay -- we're going to put parts of both of them together to make one good machine! All in all, I think we've gotten some very good deals -- I don't have room to collect any more machines.

Jeanette