Vintage Giggles aka What are they smoking????
#5041
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Location: Michigan. . .FINALLY!!!!
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http://muncie.craigslist.org/atq/4109737935.html
just how much should someone else pay for your sentiment???
just how much should someone else pay for your sentiment???
#5042
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Well, this is really interesting. A person looking for someone to restore an antique Singer machine. The machine looks to be in really, really rough shape, though.
http://providence.craigslist.org/wan/4143942231.html
http://providence.craigslist.org/wan/4143942231.html
#5043
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Denver Colorado
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Well, this is really interesting. A person looking for someone to restore an antique Singer machine. The machine looks to be in really, really rough shape, though.
http://providence.craigslist.org/wan/4143942231.html
http://providence.craigslist.org/wan/4143942231.html
Or am I not seeing something here?
EDIT: Person of low integrity could take a good machine - repaint it using matching decals - swap the number plate - let it sit on the shelf for a month and then call it done for $400.
Last edited by Lew Schiller; 10-22-2013 at 06:33 AM.
#5044
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I'd bet real money that they stop looking for a restorer when they find out what a restorer will cost...especially on one that looks like that. Unless that one came to Oregon in the Conestoga wagon with great grandma I don't see how it'd ever be worth the cost.
Or am I not seeing something here?
Or am I not seeing something here?
#5047
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This one will not go away. Carved wooden pants on Singer irons.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/art/4104275533.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/art/4104275533.html
#5049
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Join Date: Jul 2013
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Steve, Thanks to your thread I noticed that. This ad has been coming and going for at least a year. But in theory the irons could be removed and and the "art" could use a different base. The irons will only become scarcer as time goes on, so in a way, is s/he preserving them for posterity?
#5050
Thanks, Tammi. That thread is great for your pictures showing the differences of the 15 and 115. I thought it might be Central Bobbin, but it seems like such a meaningless distinction. Central to the left side of the machine?
This looks like a sweet deal for someone, but would it have been so hard to take a picture of the whole front of the machine? It looks like it's in a storage shed, so it would be harder now.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/atq/4143442736.html
This looks like a sweet deal for someone, but would it have been so hard to take a picture of the whole front of the machine? It looks like it's in a storage shed, so it would be harder now.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/atq/4143442736.html
There's an ad on kijiji here. It shows up every few months. It's a photo of a machine cabinet crammed into a very full closet (someone -might- have a shoe problem...) I emailed her once to ask what the machine was. She said she'd dig it out and email me back with a photo. I never heard from her again, but she's posted it 3 times since. I give up. I hope this machine doesn't suffer the same fate (too lazy to sell it)
This one will not go away. Carved wooden pants on Singer irons.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/art/4104275533.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/art/4104275533.html
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