I can’t find my manual either. It has a plainer white cover, and I think it is from 1943 or so. I also have the USDA sewing machine repair bulletin no. 1944.
WARNING! BORING LEGAL STUFF AHEAD!
I would guess that Sheryl’s machine was “renewed” (as it states above the SN), before 1964 (when phone numbers changed to all digits) but after Singer v. Briley in 1953, when Singer regained their trademark (they lost it in an 1896 Supreme Court case, Singer v. June). After Briley, refurbishers could use the Singer name and decals only if they also marked the machine rebuilt, by whom, stated certain modifications (like electrifying the machine), identified former treadles as such, and if they used non-Singer parts, among other things. They were also only allowed to replace the decals which the same ones they took off, not modern ones. Jones has most of the required disclosures on this 27. They cheated on the decals, though. Those look like the “trefoil” set Singer used on 15s after 1930 (there’s one on the Ismacs decal page.
We now return you to your regularly enjoyable thread.
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