![]() All of these tables are reproduced from those on International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society (ISMACS) in a more up to date format that will be better displayed on mobile formats and corrected as much as possible with more current information from outside sources there may still be some conflicting information. In the first table below please note that the No Letter Prefix tab will reveal the list of machines from 1871-1899. Rather we have to rely on the range of serial numbers allotted by year to roughly date machines. ![]() ![]() For most of the years Pre-1900 when the serial numbers did not have lettered prefixes little production information survives and it is difficult to tell which models were produced when and in what quantities. However when you do a deep dive into what data is available you find that is not necessarily the case.ġn 1908 a massive fire at the Singer offices in Elizabeth, NJ destroyed a large part of the Singer archives dating back to the founding of the company in 1850/51 (Actual date disputed). Some would think that simply by it’s size and hundreds of millions of machines made Singer would be one of the easiest machines to accurately date. ![]()
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