mary's featherweight

indeed mary, your featherweight AE297004 is from 1936, November 5 1936 in elizabeth, nj to be exact. anyone who has a singer might want to bookmark this page http://singerco.com/support/serial_numbers.html to look up the "birthdate" of your singer sewing machine. notice that there are three options, no serial #, one letter, and two letters. click on the appropriate one and it will take you to a page that will give you the date, model # (nice if you're not sure), and place where it was manufactured.

as a featherweight fanatic, i could write for hours about these great machines. i have bought, fixed, sold, cleaned, collected, and enjoyed them for years. it is the machine i use 99.9% of the time and i drag it along with me just about everywhere. last year i even lugged one that i was selling on the airplane and waited patiently by security knowing there might be a question or two ;) if you want a really good website with accurate (not all websites are!) information, i highly suggest graham forsdyke -- who i call my guru -- that can be found at http://www.singer-featherweight.com/

do alot of reading before you decide what you use to clean these great machines, the cosmetic aspect of them is easy to ruin if you don't know what you're doing. this is a bad time for me to go into detail, but mary if you'd like to correspond off-list, use ikwlt atyahoo dot com and put 'featherweight' in the subject line.

off to the store for some last minute superbowl snacks!
dutchrose ---{-@