Collier & Sons Ltd 134 to 142 Clapham Road, London. This appears to be a Singer treadle sewing machine from 1888 in a much later case. The condition seems to be good, only the gilding is worn off. A working and fully serviced sewing machine should easily find a buyer. These machines are built to last.Įxample of a sewing machine from Gritzner – not a Singer sewing machine A Potted History of the Gritzner Company One of the giants of German sewing machine manufacture was the Gritzner Company. The apprised object is a sewing machine made by the company Gritzner which was located in Durlach in Germany. This company was founded in 1872 and produced sewing machines, and motorbikes. This sewing machine has the serial number 1.379.201 which dates it into the year 1905.

The 66 in the picture above is valuable to me, and might be useful as a doorstop to some people, but the condition of the decals gives it very little monetary value, despite it being 49 years older than my valuable one. It was just in a pretty table and I bought it for the table). Some of those things are rare, and some of those things are historically significant (side note, I had NO IDEA the value when I bought it. One of my Singer 66's (and oh yes, I have several) is worth about $800 due to the fact that is has so many things that increase the value (1951 Centennial, Crinkle finish, Blackside, with backtack). Certain decal patterns are rare, or certain conditions and quality are rare. They are a solidly-built machine, so there's a ton of them that still survive.

As previously mentioned, over two million of the Singer 66 were made. Most of my antique machines that I own were $70-ish, but many of the less attractive ones were significantly less. Nene parkway accident today.The main problem with buying antique machines is that many people look just at historical value, or just look at the age of the machine, and assume that that will give it a high monetary value.

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