Here's the rejected larger shot of the old sewing machine whose image I posted yesterday:
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The Singer website will search any serial number for any machine they ever made, and this one was made in 1913. My wife bought it a year ago at an estate sale for $35. It is a full cabinet model and the machine drops down into the cabinet so it looks like a table. The only broken part is the belt you see on the right. It's leather and has just worn through and broken. The detailed scroll work is just amazing and is a style you don't see anymore. Like yesterday's image the winged critter under the thread is actually a sphinx. The drawers were full of parts and needles and, amazingly, letters. One was a carbon copy (a real one) of a hand written letter from 1923 by the 31 year old woman who owned this machine. It was written to the Registrar of voting for Rockbridge County and requested that she be added to the Registry of voters. A slice of life from a century ago.