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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 863071, member: 360&quot;]Without seeing the brass pillar-badge, I won&#039;t be able to tell you too much, but first impressions are:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Japanese-made.</p><p>- Singer 15-clone/knockoff.</p><p>- Postwar manufacture (1950s, 60s, most likely).</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan cranked out MILLIONS of these machines in the postwar era, followed in the 70s and 80s, by China. They produced countless, countless knockoffs and copies of the Singer 15 sewing machine, first made back in the...1870s, I think it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stitch-length regulator, and the forward-reverse gearing on the pillar tells me that this is a POST-WAR machine. Singer didn&#039;t start doing that stuff until the late 30s. All sewing machine manufacture ceased during the War, so the first Singer machines with forward-reverse gearing and stitch-adjustment like that were all postwar machines in the late 40s, early 50s. Given that this is a copy of a Singer 15, it won&#039;t be any older than that. The numbers on the pillar dial refer to stitches-per-inch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why the hell they ever picked the Singer 15 as the best machine to copy, is beyond my goddamn comprehension. It&#039;s certainly not the easiest machine to use, I speak from firsthand experience, but it remains popular, for reasons that continue to elude me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Electrical power was still not universal, even in the 1950s. So hand-cranked machines continued to be made. My dad grew up in the 50s and 60s, and he said that my grandmother (who was a dressmaker) still used a treadle-machine most of the time to do her work, just because the power was so unreliable, using her electric machine just wasn&#039;t worthwhile. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s all I can tell you at the moment, unless you have specific questions or provide more photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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