Singer 99-13 Knee Control
Filigree Decal Pattern
Manufactured: February 27, 1934, Elizabethport, New Jersey
Serial Number: AD598010
Needle: Standard 15x1
Bobbins: Singer Class 66
Mechanism type: Oscillating round bobbin
Feed: Must be covered
Feet: Low shank
In dome-top bentwood case
Singer 99-13
This was my grandmother's Singer. I think I first really noticed it when I was fourteen years old or so. Gleaming black and gold, with a beautifully finished wood base. Well, I knew I had seen something special.
I asked her about it. As for many things in our family, there was a story attached to it. My grandmother is the youngest of eleven children. Her older sister Bessie had a friend who was a seamstress named Mildred Moon. Mildred had made all of my mother's infant clothes, gowns of white organdy and lace as well as everyday clothes on this wonderful Singer. When Mildred passed away, her family asked Bessie to give the machine to my grandmother. My grandmother lovingly used this machine for many years, it being the only sewing machine she had.
When her eyesight started to fail and when she was in her 80's, my grandmother started to mention that I would someday have her Singer. She put it off for a few years, because she still liked to sew on it, and felt that once she gave it up, she was admitting she had trouble seeing. This again showed me the real value of some of our possessions, the ability to keep us tied to something we love. In her case this has been her independence of others, her sewing, her seeing.
Well, she now has great trouble seeing, and I have received the Singer. As the granddaughter who has already cherished this machine for its history, to me it looks almost like new. It's a Singer 99-13 knee-control model in a bentwood case. It isn't extremely rare, and wouldn't bring a huge dollar value, but it has a cherished place in my home. My grandmother told me when she gave it to me "I just had it serviced, and it runs beautifully, just hold the cord up a bit when you sew." What could be more precious than that. The machine my mother's baby clothes were made with, and then used by my grandmother for all those years, and now given to me. Holding the cord up just a bit, and continuing the history.
She does not think she ever had the attachments or manual. The lock on the bentwood case is missing the key, and she used a small screwdriver to open the case. It has its original wiring and very little, if any, decal wear. It is operated by using the included knee bar. There are a few scratches in the wood of the case, but that doesn't bother me.
I finally had to replace the original power cord with a newer one.
Accessories that would have come with this machine:
Accessories box (complete) # 160809 - would contain:
2 felt washers (part# 8879)
hemmer foot (#35931)
edge stitcher (# 36865)
binder (#81245)
gathering foot (#121441)
tube of oil (#161133)
large screwdriver (#161294)
small screwdriver (#161295)
package #2020 of needles
Attachments I purchased for this 99-13 machine (this has the feet from above as well as the adjustable hemmer, and the ruffler). The box is in very good condition and is marked 160809 on one end.:
