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Please note that this object no longer forms part of the Museum of English Rural Life collection, and so cannot be accessed at our institution. Singer 69-5 Button Sewer. This machine is painted black with gold decoration, and sits on a wooden base. It's production/serial number is AC177162, manufactured in 1928. Part of the Barnett Collection (81/25-81/143) which illustrates the history of the sewing machine. DEACCESSIONED.

1 sewing machine: deaccessioned

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Standard museum name: Sewing Machine // Accession number: 81/32 // Classification: // Negative number: // Acquisition method: // Acquired from, date: Barnett Collection // Store: // Condition: // Recorder, date: DJE 21.7.81 // Description: Singer sewing machine '69 5'// Dimensions: // Associated information: // References: Barnett Catalogue No. 81', Citation in publication [E.J. Barnett, ‘Sewing machines: a catalogue of the Barnett collection’ ([Reading]: University of Reading, 1982] – '81 // Singer 69-5 Button Sewer // This machine is for automatically sewing two- or four-hole buttons. It makes the correct number of stitches before stopping; the threads are then trimmed off.' (p.60), Barnett Collection Review (2011) - 'This machine was intended for industrial use. It features a model number: 69/5. It also features a production/serial number: AC177162. If any machines were to be put forward for deaccession and possible disposal or use in handling contexts, this would be a likely candidate.', MERL Miscellaneous note - According to the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society website Singer's Elizabethport factory issued AC serial numbers from 1928-1930, and the number AC177162 from 22 May 1928. [http://ismacs.net accessed 2017-12-01].

Elizabethport

1928-05-22 - 1930

Metal, Wood