For giggles, continued, I saw it on...
#3461
cool, this is the first "1889" sewing machine that "I" have ever seen with plastic parts....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-sing...item3aa3b72206
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-sing...item3aa3b72206
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https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/app/4906405129.html
^^^ first classy re-use of treadle irons in handmade sewing cabinet ^^^
^^^ first classy re-use of treadle irons in handmade sewing cabinet ^^^
#3464
This is a Singer 293B. Made in France. Kinda cool but...."The Singer 293B is a simple, (mostly metal) straight stitch only Singer made in Bonnieres, France in the 60s. It was imported, and marketed as a low-priced basic machine, and at the time of it’s introduction, it sold for about $75".....compliments of the sewingdude blog.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details....dId=1053586297 - I'd sure like to know who's "telling" people these things. I know it's not the shops in town, they try to get you to buy new and don't give anything for trade in.
Generic photo, and the 2 shops in question are in rented space and inventory not included so this is largely for the "Reputation" of this shop and I haven't met anyone yet who's raved (in their favor) about the shop.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details....dId=1052816242
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#3466
The 290C is Brazilian, I have no doubt that the 293B is French. They still had factories everywhere then.
Probably a year ago someone posted internal pics of a 290C here in the VAME forum and it was all plastic inside a heavy metal body and theirs had a broken gear. The O(Singer)SMG that tuned mine up "way back" in... uh... early 2011 knew I was a tinkerer and told me not to open the top of that one and tinker because if I adjusted something wrong, he didn't think even he'd be able to put it back together. When you turn the big dial on it, the levers at the top move back and forth seemingly of their own will. That machine is why I thought I couldn't sew for 25 years.
Probably a year ago someone posted internal pics of a 290C here in the VAME forum and it was all plastic inside a heavy metal body and theirs had a broken gear. The O(Singer)SMG that tuned mine up "way back" in... uh... early 2011 knew I was a tinkerer and told me not to open the top of that one and tinker because if I adjusted something wrong, he didn't think even he'd be able to put it back together. When you turn the big dial on it, the levers at the top move back and forth seemingly of their own will. That machine is why I thought I couldn't sew for 25 years.
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