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International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society

The purpose of the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society is to foster the collecting of, and research into, sewing machines.

Singer Manufacturing Dates and Average Cash Cost

PLEASE NOTE: Dates are when the serial numbers were allotted and NOT the actual date of manufacture. For example, serial numbers were last allotted for the 115 in 1935, but the last 115 machine made could easily have been in 1936.

TREADLE MACHINES
Models
9-W-7 1909 to 1913
115-1 1912 to 1935
15-30 1895 to 1933
27-4 1889 to 1913
127-3 1913 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
Models
66-1 Egyptian (green) Ornamentation 1902 to 1906
66-1 Scroll (red) Ornamentation 1906 to 1923
66-4 1923 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)


PORTABLE MACHINES
Models
128-3 1917 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
128-13 1917 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
66-13 1920 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
99K5 1924 to 1925
99K10 1922 to 1924
99K13 1924 to 1924
99-13 1925 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
101-10 1922 to 1926
101-11 1925 to 1929


ELECTRIC TABLE MODELS
Models
66-6-19 1921 to 1925
66-6-20 1923 to 1926
66-6-305 1925 to 1925
66-6-306 1928 to 1931
66-6-40 1925 to ---- (because of date of publication, a date was not indicated)
101-1-17, 18, 19 1920 to 1925
101-2-20 1925 to 1926
101-3-40 1925 to 1930
101-4-40 1929 to 1937


AVERAGE COST (cash paid) FOR MACHINE
Year Cost
1906 - 1912 $36.80 to 41.60
1913 - 1917 $39.60 to 44.40
1918 - 1920 $44.40 to 55.60
1921 - 1928 $60.80 to 67.20
1928 - 1935 $72.25 to 85.00
1935 - 1946 $84.00 to 115.00


AVERAGE COST (cash paid) FOR ELECTRIC PORTABLE
MODELS 128 99 221-1
1922 - 1934 $59.50 $77.00 **
1934 - 1941 $ 59.50 $85.00 $88.00
1946 - 1946 $69.50 $95.00 $105.00


AVERAGE COST (cash paid) FOR ELECTRIC CONSOLE
MODELS 66 101 201 15-91
1920 - 1925 $120.00 $140.00 ** **
1926 - 1935 $140.00 $178.00 ** **
1936 - 1946 $155.00 ** $175.00 $150.00

** None MFG.


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