Thursday, December 8, 2011

Singer 99 Memphis (Sphinx) Treadle Sewing Machine


My new baby is older than I am by around a hundred years. It's estimated to have been made between 1895 and 1920, with the closest guess being 1904. I bought it today in less than admirable cleanliness from a gentleman on KSL, and I am so proud of it that I have to share pictures. I cleaned it up and polished everything I could. You'd hardly recognize it from the first picture I saw of it.

I think I am going to start collecting vintage sewing machines...

1 comments:

Sun Child said...

We've had the same model in our family for 12 years. I found this website, maybe it may help you narrow down your guess on when it was made by looking up the serial number on it.

http://www.singerco.com/support/machine-serial-numbers

Thanks for your post!

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