Redeyes often show up on the site here in the USA.īy the way BKay, there is a horizontal cast iron brace across the back that would be under the machine and above the operators legs that has Singer cast into it, but nothing cast into the treadle like a name or model.
No name, no note, just the Singer and a more recent model of a Dressmaker that had bee partially dismantled.
The sewing machine is a model 66-16 with a serial number 'AF729308. The Singer model 66 ran from the 1902 right up until the model was superseded by the amazing Singer 201, that was around 1956 in America and production ran from 1907 to 1940 in Britain. It had been passed back and forth among my Granny, her sister, and my mother, so no wonder the drawer was lost. Its a antique Singer 16-41 and its still going strong. I have great Grandma's Redeye 66 treadle made in 1919 and the cabinet is with two drawers on each side, but missing the wide center drawer. He looked at me a while, smiled and said "I have a machine you can have." Later in the week I came home and he had left a Redeye in a cabinet, in good condition at my side door. I see more Red Eye models than any other. I had a conversation with the man who painted our house, telling him that each time I bought an old machine, I felt like I was rescuing it. Years of sitting in the middle of our great Aunt's kitchen took it's toll on the veneer. It had been passed back and forth among my Granny, her sister, and my mother, so no wonder the drawer was lost. To manual after first singer treadle base plate draw out of treadling backwards fien when you to others in north dakota, but those parts.
I have great Grandma's Redeye 66 treadle made in 1919 and the cabinet is with two drawers on each side, but missing the wide center drawer. Bobbin case is singer treadle sewing machine user, hard core machine and reassemble things so much more glass showing how. I see more Red Eye models than any other.