Model 15 Singer Treadle Machines

Very common! And no less good for that! I have one: a very nice but plain 15-88 in a 5 drawer table. They were made for domestic and home-dressmaker type use. Mine was built in St jean in Canada in 1936.

I don't know myself, but I know that one time a number of years ago I found a web page where they had listed a lot of machines and years and sales prices by model and year based on original sales slips that various people had found. If you can find that page, I bet it would give you enough information to extrapolate a ballpark figure.

Its St John Kate! You should come to Canada, we can go exploring!

My 15-88 was made in 1948, also in St John! It doesn't have a very fancy cabinet, but it is servicable and I love it!

Michelle Giordano

Most certainly it would depend on the cabinet and even the dealer and what part of the country they were in. But according to the blue book the model

and at a time when a dollar a day was HIGH wages for a woman, and even for a male laborer.

Thanks to everyone for your comments. I thought that was a lot of money for the 1930's also. I suppose it was certainly a luxury item. Both of mine were made in Elizabeth, NJ in 3

Singer had a payment plan, something like $5.00 per month payment. The Singer man would pick up the payments, and no doubt show off the latest attachments or some other item to sell.

Ah, I remember fondly *my* Singer salesman. He was the same one who sold my mother a machine in the mid-50s, and when it came time for me to buy my first one, Mr. Samson came to my apartment and demo'd several models. I still own that 401A. Hadn't thought about him for years.

Thanks for the memory,

Beverly

YW