Singer production records for the first Featherweights show the following information for the model 221:ĪD541546 - AD551545, 10,000 units, Production Date: October 3, 1933.Īlso looking at the Singer AD production records show that the last 1933 serial number was AD573295, before going into 1934. MAYBE now we know why it was 11 month's between the first and second production run. Singer production records as MODEL-96, OCTOBER-17-1933 SINCE a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll just let My Good Friend Leo finish out the show.ĪD721468 Real Number: AD551900. And it had a 50/50 chance of being a 1933 Model instead of a 1934. About all we would tell her is we wanted to look at the serial number under the Arm. ROWE and asked if she would be willing to mail her AD721468 to Texas. I asked Leo to email our collector friend LYNN ROWE in Canada and ask if she owned the machine, and if she still had it? YES! was the answer to both questions. I only had a bit of a scrambled eBay bidder number to go by. Leo and I had to find out who now owned the AD721468 machine. THEN in late December 2010, Leo found on eBay AD722810, a 221 with a milled serial number. Leo was staying fit from pulling the arms off so many 221’s and calling me names other than JJ. Yet! We didn't really know what we were looking for. WHAT we were doing wrong was chasing Forged 221’s with Forged serial number bases. HE Also may have known something else about the AD72**** Serial Number! Also this meant he had either been working for Singer or was a Singer technician and had experience on Singer machines. One, the Forger had known about the hidden serial number, which very few people knew about. Still Leo pulled the arm off the machine, only to discover that the Forger also knew about the hidden serial number under the arm, and had Forged it too. Everything on it pointed to a 1937 AE machine. WHEN Machine AD726890, or #3 in the NOVEMBER 2010 QOW, sold on eBay, Leo and I knew it was a Forgery. You may want to reread them to refresh your memory of what we're referring to here.
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We also did a full article on AD72**** Forgeries in the NOVEMBER 2010 QOW. We did a small bit on Forged 221’s in the APRIL 2010 QOW. Do you know the difference between FORGERY and ALTERED?įORGERY: Making, adapting or imitating objects with intent to Deceive.ĪLTERED: Changed to improve or Make To Fit. I think we will call this a COLD CASE FILE, since I have been chasing this since 2006 and the culprit is 60 to 78 years ahead of us. As promised, Leo and I are going to dish up a little 221 history that has never been written about. WHO IS FORGING THE AD72**** MACHINES PART 2 (or the "lost" machines!) If we hit up on a topic you know a great deal about, please let us know! We want to share the knowledge with all who care about the Featherweight! - J.J. Keeping its History Alive is part of the fun. Facts! We will always try to back up our facts with Pictures. We will give you Our Opinion from time to time. We also said many questions will go unanswered. When Leo and I started the Question of the week, our intent was to clear up a lot of the Myths and Rumors about the 221. We are still learning and some questions will never be answered. Between the two us we have a day or two of hands on experience with 221's.
We are here to separate the difference between Fact and Fiction. Too many Myths and Rumors have been posted in books and on the internet. No matter what your expertise is, I promise you will learn more about the 221 than you ever thought possible. No matter how much or how little you know about the American built 221 Featherweights this site has been set up to educate and inform you about the 221 Featherweights. The Singer Model 221 has seen some "oddities" during its manufacturing lifetime and this section is dedicated to making those oddities become known to the featherweight enthusiast. The Singer Model 221 “Featherweight” Sewing Machine
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