Singer C Model Treadle Machine
 

My mother passed on her Singer Model C2012310 in cabinet to me. I believe it works, but it has been in storage for several years. How do I determine its value?

Welcome to the Vintage and Antique Machine group of QB. My mom's machine would be pretty valuable to me... I hope you are wanting to get it back in good working condition and use it. I looked on the site where I find out the age and model # of Singer machine and didn't find any serial numbers starting with C. Could it be a G? If it's a G, it's a model 66 released in 1912. Value is in the eye of the beholder. I've heard of people paying little, a lot, or free for old treadles. Please take a picture and post it so all of us old machine collectors can oogle and drool over your treasure.

The records for the "C" models are lost...but if I remember right, these machines were made in either Germany or Russia?

A photo would be a good thing! :)

Got this from the ISMACS machine dating site. Perhaps the Ruskies have the missing data??

Joe

Joe, the Ruskies couldn't have given two figs. It's not Singer I weep for, it's L. O. Dietrich, the manufacturers of Vesta machines.

Dietrich was making a pretty nice assault rifle for the Nazi's, can't blame the Ruskies there.

Jon

Banjar Gal, are you able to post photos of the machine? It would be nice to see it.

Apologies to Banjar Gal for the digression... Jon, I know Dietrich switched over to arms, as did many of the other sewing machine manufacturers. The Russians can be held entirely to blame for the fact that Dietrich, Kohler and other manufacturers in Eastern Germany never returned to their pre-war glory and ended up producing indifferent machines for the USSR and Eastern bloc. When I eventually show pictures of my 1936 Vesta Transverse Shuttle you can weep with me.