Nice find!! It looks a lot like my treadle. It's folded up so I don't have a clue what my serial number is-I'll have to look at it and check the links.

The serial # is 3205025 (it doesn't have a letter) and If i'm reading the singer website correctly that means it was issued that number in 1879. But the throat plate says patented usa aug 2nd 92.

Does that change anything billy or is it still a 9W? Also the machine still sews! it moves freely but still badly needs cleaning, especially the cast iron treadle! It's all rust everywhere! What do I use to get it clean? does the treadle get a kerosene bath too?

This is still a 9W and it is around the 1910 era. The serial numbers that are on these machines are a continuation of the W&W's.

Go to this thread here and it might shed a little more light on the subject.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-68739-1.htm

Billy

Thanks Billy that's a big help,

So what about the rust on the treadle?

Cheryl

vintage I think I found the manual at this website:

http://www.tias.com/stores/relics/

but at least mine looks to be a 9W 7 according to their bobbin pictures

Try this place, I look up numbers all the time. look on the bottom for numbers, good luck. ;)

http://www.singerco.com/support/serial_numbers.html

http://www.a1sewingmachine.com/manuals.htm

The Singer company "lost" the records for the "W" series and the 9W's but I know where they are sitting ;) They are sitting in a friends home in California! Chrys Gunther is the most knowledgeable person in the world on the Singer Sewing Machine Company. She has most of the missing records and company interoffice memos going back to the 1800's.

Billy

Billy,

My machine is missing it's bobbin winder- do you think I could buy one off you?

Cheryl