Historical information
This sewing machine was bought by Alex Craig's dad in 1942 for his wife whom he married in 1943. Alex's grandmother used it in 1942 to make button holes.
Significance
Historical: Type of machine used by S.E.C.V. wives living in Mt Beauty in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. Ladies made the family's clothes and sewed for the Annual Church and chook fetes e.g.. children's clothes and dolls clothes. They bought dozens of dolls and made 'fairy' dresses for them using coloured netting.
Physical description
Green & white box containing black & silver metal with 4 parts for attaching to Singer sewing machine for sewing button holes.
Inscriptions & markings
"Singer Buttonhole Attachment" on green 'cloud' top of box.
"The Singer manufacturing Company" on green 'cloud' on side of box.
"For Light Manufacturing and Home Use" on green 'cloud' on side of box.
"Made in Great Britain" on white top half of end of box & teen 'cloud' below end of box is "Singer / Buttonhole Attachment / No. 86662 / For Singer Lock Stitch/ Family Sewing Machines.