2024-11-07
#tbt The Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine Buffalo NY Courier Express 1968 Singer Featherweight Ad

#tbt The Singer Featherweight Sewing Machine

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Albany NY Times Union 1950 Featherweight Ad
Albany NY Times Union 1950 Featherweight Ad
Buffalo NY Courier Express 1950 Featherweight Ad
Buffalo NY Courier Express 1950 Featherweight Ad

The sticker price did not keep up with inflation- it was $145 in 1948 and remained $145 in 1950.

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1958 Singer Featherweight Ad
Buffalo NY Courier Express 1958 Singer Featherweight Ad

I miss Hengerer’s. I’m too young to remember the Singer Sewing Center on the second floor. I do wonder which slant model they were selling for $237.50 especially since the 301 Floor Model was going for $237.50 as well.

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1961 Singer Featherweight Ad
Buffalo NY Courier Express 1961 Singer Featherweight Ad

These prices! Even taking into account inflation. A singer featherweight for $4.50????

 

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1968 Singer Featherweight Ad
Buffalo NY Courier Express 1968 Singer Featherweight Ad

In today’s dollars that machine would cost about $687. But look! It is the start of the decline of the Singer Sewing Machines The newest Touch & Throw (opps TOUCH & SEW®) machines are available for $149.95. Buy the damn Featherweight® your grandchildren will love you for it.

Cortland NY Standard 1948 Singer Featherweight Ad
Cortland NY Standard 1948 Singer Featherweight Ad

That same machine? Would be almost $2,000 today.

Greenfield MA Recorder Gazette 1953 Singer Featherweight Ad
Greenfield MA Recorder Gazette 1953 Singer Featherweight Ad

Today’s dollars for that $19 used Featherweight? $168. Try finding a 1953 era Featherweight for $168 in today’s market.

Troy NY Times Record 1954 Featherweight Ad
Troy NY Times Record 1954 Featherweight Ad

I love that in 1954 Treadle Sewing Machines were still advertised (Newly manufactured machines to Treadle or handcrank are still available- they are typically sold domestically to Amish communities and internationally to developing countries)

 

Twin Falls ID Times News 1967 Featherweight Ad
Twin Falls ID Times News 1967 Featherweight Ad

 

As always a HUGE thank you to Fulton History who makes it so easy to find vintage ads (like these Singer Featherweight ads) to blog about.

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