#Forehand Arms Company Serial Numbers serial#
That seems unlikely, however, as no other member of the Combination saw a need for two serial numbers.įew Singers from the 1850s and early 1860s have come to light but those that have show a Factory Number that is always 4,000 less (OK, fewer) than the Register Number, regardless of the class of machine. Possibly because, initially, Singer himself had been responsible for it - the semi-literate serial adulterer wasn’t the most fastidious of record keepers - and possibly because Singer’s membership of the Sewing Machine Combination required some esoteric accounting. Until Glasgow started making other models, (1869) the Register number remained identical to the Factory No. The subsequent New Family batch, commissioned early the following year, was for a substantial 10,000 and continued the Factory Number from 200 to 10,199. In those days, it was common for the company to start production of a new machine with a very small run, in order to iron out technical issues and provide key sales points with samples.
When Singer’s Glasgow factory opened in 1867, the first two runs of just 100 New Family each were commissioned to start from Factory Number 0 to 199 (hence the ‘plus 1’). The second number – almost always numerically smaller than the first – was known as the ‘Factory Number’ and usually reflected a running total (plus 1) of that particular class, at that particular factory.
#Forehand Arms Company Serial Numbers serial number#
Officially, what we know as the serial number was called the ‘Register Number’ and, until the end of 1899, it kept a running total of all the machines made by both the USA and Scotland factories. Singer stamped its early machines with two numbers.
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