Coffin top treadle models
 

I am in the process of acquiring a coffin top Singer treadle machine. I don't know yet what model it is.

I looked at ISMACS { http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mach...extlf_cab.html } and they don't go back any farther than those shown on the page.

What earlier Singer models would have been in a coffin top treadle? And what would the model numbers be?

Once I get it home I'll post a "I got it" thread with pics. WHOOO HOOOO another treadle for my heard.

Joe

Hi Joe,
It's most likely a 27 or 127 vibrating shuttle machine, but when you post the photo we'll be able to tell. The vibrating shuttle machines have two long, rectangular slide plates running front-to-back the depth of the bed, positioned just to the right of the foot. (Often the back plate is frozen in position and the front plate - the only one you need to move for access to the shuttle - is missing.) Looking forward to seeing photos!

James

James,

Yes it could be. I know about the VS machines, I have one .... or three :D . In the case of this machine supposedly the grandmother or great-grandmother of it's owners bought it new. That could be a pre-1900 machine or an early 1900s machine.

I've not seen pics of it yet, but my SIL is trying to get one. I've also asked her to get the history of the machine so I can keep them together.

I guess in a way I'm hoping for a pre-1900s machine cos I don't yet have one. But I'll gladly accept what ever it is.

Joe

If it's a coffin top most likely it will be pre-1900 -unless you get lucky and get a combination 128 where the bentwood case sits inside the treadle base. I think Singer was making their treadle bases with the machines dropping inside by the 1890s.
Rodney

My Jones machine is a coffin top and I think but don't recall for sure that it dates to around 1920. I've seen pics of many different machines in coffin top cabinets but there you go, have no idea whether the machines were original to the base or not.
Rodney I have one of those little cabinets that you set a portable case into, but it's not a treadle one. I was going to bring it to our get together that was canceled and I'll bring it when we re-schedule.

Cari

http://www.quiltingboard.com/attachm...5-dscn0081.jpg
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t245211.html



Here is my coffin top Singer that belonged to my grandmother. It's a 27 with serial #B992314

If memory serves I don't think some of the earliest domestic Singers had model numbers. You could possibly get some idea of the various models and treadles from the Smithsonian. Try this - http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect...0712/index.htm I believe it is pre-1900. The pre-15's were the "Improved Family"

They also have the 1908 catalog which has treadles that didn't have coffin tops.

I think the cabinet to set the portable machines in are neat. I think they were different for the 99's and the 28/128s since they had different height bases.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

A fiddle-bed Improved Family would be nice, wouldn't it?

Wow, brandeesmom. Your machine is in top notch condition. Stunning. I have to figure out a way to sneak a treadle into the house.....

LOL - Let us know when you do!

Below are a couple of coffin tops, a New Home and a Wheeler and Wilson No. 8. (I have the top for the NH, but no photo with it in place.)