![]() “Well I couldn’t find my camera so I used a picture I found on the internet. “You don’t have the machine you advertised?” “No, but does that matter? They’re all much the same.” “This isn’t the machine in the photo in the advert.” It was a clapped out and very ordinary early 66 with the most boring decals Singer ever used, and those in a very poor state. When I got there, I was ushered into the kitchen and shown the machine. I’d talked about it on the phone to the person selling it, and I was fairly sure of its condition. That’s a rare-in-the-UK Singer with distinctive decals which I think are OTT but Elsie thinks are lovely. On a very hot and incredibly humid summer afternoon, I once drove for well over two hours through horrendous traffic to buy a Red Head. And if you’re really lucky, it might not be a lot worse than this specially-taken rubbish snap.īefore we go any further, though, A Word Of Warning. If you’re lucky, they might have put a picture in the advert. If you’re on the phone to somebody who’s put a for sale ad in the local rag which just says “Old Singer sewing machine for sale” or something equally informative, you obviously need to know a bit more about what exactly it is that they found in the attic when they moved in and now think might be Worth A Few Quid. ![]() They might still do, actually, but I digress … ![]() Or how to tell t’other from which, as they used to say in Lancashire.
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