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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. This is a Singer 'New Family' sewing-machine, with serial number 5309703 and factory number 1249903. The machine is contained in a wooden box. It is an oscillating shuttle lock-stitch machine. The metal machine is painted black with decoration in gold and sits on a wooden base. The machine was manufactured in 1883 according to the serial number. The object is part of the Barnett Collection. DEACCESSIONED

1 sewing machine and 1 box: deaccessioned

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Standard museum name: Sewing machine // Accession number: 81/81 // Classification: // Negative number: // Acquisition method: // Acquired from, date: Barnett Collection // Store: // Condition: // Recorder, date: JVB. 27.7.81 // Description: Singer sewing machine 5309703 // 1249903 //Dimensions: // Associated information: // References: Barnett catalogue No 32', MERL Miscellaneous note - According to the International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society website Singer's factory issued the serial number 5309703 in 1883. [http://ismacs.net accessed 2018-01-16].

1883 - 1883

Metal, Wood