If you find that your serial number has a single or two-letter prefix before the number, your sewing machine was manufactured after 1900.If you find that your serial number consists of numbers only, it was manufactured before 1900 (Cha-Ching!).The general rubric for determining which year your sewing machine was manufactured is below: It may have been produced in a different year than the year the first purchase was made. To be clear, just because you bought the sewing machine in a certain year, doesn't mean that the sewing machine was issued in that year. This will tell you when the sewing machine was issued. When you find your serial number, you then crosscheck it with a database on Singer's website. The serial number will be on a metal plate somewhere on your Singer sewing machine.
Ok, now to the meat and potatoes of this article. Finding the model number on some old models is harder and may need some digging. First, I will show you where to find the serial number and crosscheck it with a database to find the year it was issued.
Great Britain Made 221K Machines at the Kilbowie, Scotland PlantįA machines were manufactured from May 1969 to April 1970įB machines were manufactured from April 1970 to June 1971Ĭandian Made 221J Machines at the St.Some of the prices are over $3000!!! To find out how much your sewing machine may be worth, you need to know it's serial number and model number. Lay your machine on its back and look on the left hand side of the main body (not the folding extension table).Īmerican Made 221 Machines at the Elizabethport, New Jersey Plant Serial numbers for Singer Featherweights are located on a raised boss on the underside of the machine. You can quickly determine which plant your machine was manufactured in by looking at the serial number on the bottom of your machine. John's (actually Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Quebec, Canada. Singer Featherweights were manufactured in three different plants: Elizabethport, New Jersey in the USA Clydebank, Kilbowie, Scotland in Great Britain and St. They will not be found to be perfect, or absolutely correct, but are provided as an aid for your use and enjoyment. These dates and the information in this table relied heavily on many others' research for which I am deeply indebted, as well as my own. Therefore, the following dates can be considered to be "close". However, the serial number on the machine is from 1949. The date often given by the Singer corporation as a machine's "birthdate" is actually the date the batches of serial numbers were released for production.Īs a classic example: I own a 1951 "badged" Centennial of Sewing machine that obviously is from 1951. The following chart is provided to help you have a better idea of when your Singer Featherweight was manufactured.
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