What model Singer is this please
 

Looks almost industrial....


http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/4310451693.html

Can you give us the serial number, possibly located on the lower right side. We may be able to look it up from the Singer databank.

Rodney-in the gulf south

Does the treadle linkage go to an electric motor on the right hand side under the back edge of the table? I recently saw a similar table with a different machine head for $250 and the machine was from the 1910-20 time period. It's definitely a commercial/industrial machine.

Also the object mounted to the table on the right with the big wheel on it is the bobbin winder and is identical to the one I saw at the consignment store.

This may well be a Singer Hemstitcher.

One more time. Looks to be a Singer 72-(19?) double needle hemstitcher made in the early 1900's. If it is, it is more useful for domestic rather than a commercial application now days.

I just went on e-bay and shurenuff there is a 72-19 with a starting bid of $1500 and buy it now for $2000. Don't let it get away if it is $800.

Rodney-in the gulf south

Closed ebay auctions are a better gauge of what people are paying or "worth". Sellers can ask anything for Buy it Now or auction listings.

I think you all are right about it being hemstitcher. Interesting machine.