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locsenemot…
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This is a singer antique sewing machine it was made in the year 1919 I believe all the parts are present had it is in working condition it has everything included the table the foot pedal sewing machine the leather belt and all that bells and whistles so to speak
Hi, locsenemotion. Beautiful. :-)
That serial number is a bit difficult to read, but if it indeed is "G727662," then this is the pertinent line in the G serial number table at the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society:
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G- 692001 742000 27 50000 September 15 1910
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http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Which means that it was part of a block of 50,000 consecutive serial numbers (692001 through 742000) allotted by the central office to a particular factory (Elizabethport) on September 15th, 1910, and all were destined to be stamped into the beds of model 27 machines.
Your machine certainly belongs to the VS1, VS2, VS3, 27, 28, 127 and 128 family of machines. That trapezoidal access panel, the split sliding plates, and the circular needle/throat plate are all characteristic of that family. The low mounted bobbin winder narrows things down further to the model 27 or 28 (the only real difference between the model 27 and 28 is overall size):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Singer.Model27.IdentificationGuide.jpg
About that family of machines:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/28
Your decal set is one I haven't seen too often. It's called the Pheasant:
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/decals/domestics/pheasant.html
Your cabinet is also a bit unusual, because it looks like the drop head Cabinet Table No. 5 (because of the embossing on the center drawer), but there are no side drawers:
http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/5-6_cab.html
Here are couple of different soft copies of manuals for the model 27/28:
http://www.sewmuse.co.uk/Singer%20VS%202%20Model%2027%20Manual.pdf
https://archive.org/details/singer-28-user-manual-en/mode/2up
Here are some links about the Elizabethport factory:
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/elizabethport
https://www.ericwilliamsblog.com/left-behind-in-elizabeth-the-singer-manufacturing-company-part-1/
https://www.ericwilliamsblog.com/left-behind-in-elizabeth-the-singer-manufacturing-company-part-2/
One more link, in case I forgot anything (this one is just a collection of vintage sewing machine links that I've accumulated over the last couple of years):
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/285089-vintage-sewing-machine-help
Hi again, locsenemotion. :-)
Within the last couple of days, I stumbled on an intriguing tool made by vintage sewing machine enthusiast and expert SteveH-VSS. It's designed to estimate the date of manufacture for a given Singer sewing machine:
https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/post/excel-2010-sewing-machine-production-date-calculator-8214151
Unfortunately, it requires an account at that forum in order to download the tool. I don't even have one myself (I don't think I'm 'worthy,' so I haven't applied).
However, I think it's possible to approximate the same results using some free tools from timeanddate dot com:
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/
I used the information in these two lines from the G serial number table, plus the serial number on your machine (G727662):
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G- 692001 742000 27 50000 September 15 1910
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G- 830701 833700 27 3000 November 17 1910
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http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/serial-numbers/singer-g-series-serial-numbers.html
Your machine might have been finished on Monday, October 24, 1910.
Is that accurate? Eh, possibly not, if only because I have good math days, and bad math days, and today isn't guaranteed to be one of the former for me. };-)
Feel free to try it yourself. :-)