Sewing Machine Jackpot Sale!
06-10-2012, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Daylesewblessed
Take a look at the pictures at the beginning of the 9th row on this estate sale posting:
http://www.estatesaleslubbock.com/NextSale.html
I understand that the owner of the estate operated the local Singer sewing machine repair shop up until about 3 years ago. I think it will be interesting to see what is at the sale. AFter today's FW find, I am not looking for another machine. However, I am hoping that there will be some attachments and manuals, especially repair manuals. I wonder if the estate sale people will have spent much time in sorting things out.
The weather forecast is for over 100 degree weather on Sunday. It won't be much fun waiting in line to get inside, but maybe it will be worth it.
Dayle
http://www.estatesaleslubbock.com/NextSale.html
I understand that the owner of the estate operated the local Singer sewing machine repair shop up until about 3 years ago. I think it will be interesting to see what is at the sale. AFter today's FW find, I am not looking for another machine. However, I am hoping that there will be some attachments and manuals, especially repair manuals. I wonder if the estate sale people will have spent much time in sorting things out.
The weather forecast is for over 100 degree weather on Sunday. It won't be much fun waiting in line to get inside, but maybe it will be worth it.
Dayle
06-12-2012, 12:07 PM
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It looks like she was a collector of many different things. Quite a lot of the machines on the 2nd table are plastic wonders. I do wish they'd show a picture of the machine in the treadle cabinet. I see a Singer 401 on the floor next to the serger. I'm so happy that the estate sale isn't in my part of Texas. I'd be there in no time flat.
Sharon
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06-12-2012, 12:43 PM
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More sale update: Purplefiend, an acquaintance of mine bought the treadle on the first day. I didn't see the price, but I did see the machine. It was a Red Eye - 66, nice cosmetic condition. She looked up the serial number, and it was from the 1920's. The slide plate looked like a replacement, so I am thinking the whole machine had probably been reconditioned. The estate sale owner had the talent to do that. The treadle cabinet looked too good to be old. It may have been refinished -- the condition was lovely.
Update on the card table that I bought -- the cutout matches the size of a 311 table, according to the ismacs website.
I went back to the sale the second day, because some of the pages on a Pfaff 230 manual I had bought were missing, and I had noticed loose pages in one of the sheds. Luckily, they were the right ones. There were NO sewing machines left for sale. They said everything left from the first day had been bought up by one person on Monday morning. However, there were cabinets left in the sheds, as well as a bushel basket full of foot controllers.
It was one of the most interesting estate sales I have been too!
Dayle
Update on the card table that I bought -- the cutout matches the size of a 311 table, according to the ismacs website.
I went back to the sale the second day, because some of the pages on a Pfaff 230 manual I had bought were missing, and I had noticed loose pages in one of the sheds. Luckily, they were the right ones. There were NO sewing machines left for sale. They said everything left from the first day had been bought up by one person on Monday morning. However, there were cabinets left in the sheds, as well as a bushel basket full of foot controllers.
It was one of the most interesting estate sales I have been too!
Dayle
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