I am not a car-booter, I like the idea that someone else’s crap is my vintage beauty but I never thought it would actually come true. Well my first experience at a car boot since I was little and used to go with my Nanna and Grandad and I came across this gorgeous Singer sewing machine.
There are two things I have always said I wanted, one being a classic Singer, and the other being an old-fashioned typewriter, so you can imagine how much I wanted this beauty as soon as I saw it.
In complete working order and with a case I seriously thought I had gone to heaven, it is so perfect and it was such a bargain as it was only £24.
So as soon as I got it home I had to find out more about it and what makes Singer so great for an amateur like me is that they put serial numbers that tells you everything about it. My beauty has a single letter prefix, a letter F, which means that it was made in Clydebank, Scotland, and dates back to the year 1914!!!
Who knew when we parked in a field near Ely that we would come home with one seriously heavy sewing machine, such a find. It was made better that when we went to an antique shop later on that day they had one that didn’t have as much detailing on as mine and it was on sale for £75, so I think we did well.
