ITEM: Singer Child's sewing machine Model 20 with box in good condition has "Simanco 29962" on bottom and Gold name plate.

Has machine clamp, wrench, instruction book, white thread and needle. 

Included in the box is a receipt of a customers instruction for an "overhaul" from Paarl in 1963 so it is a working and well looking after item. 

MATERIAL: Metal

MAKER: Singer Manfg. Co Great Britain

LENGTH: 7" x 3 1/2" x 6 3/4" tall

ITEM WEIGHT grams: 1230

MONOGRAM: None

NOTE: Iphone is used for scale in picture and is not included in the sale. :)

Singer Miniature Toy Chain Stitch Sewing Machines - Singer 20

When the Singer 20 toy sewing machine was introduced in 1910 it was in a league of its own. Although the Singer 20 was of a simple chain stitch design requiring just 40 components, it was very well engineered with a cast iron body. Compared to other toy sewing machines of its era, and indeed since then until the present, it is far more like a miniature adult machine than a child’s toy. When other manufacturers wanted to enter the same market, many decided to do so with a close copy of the Singer 20.

After the end of WW2 several U.K. companies such as Essex, Grain and Vulcan decided to produce toy sewing machines. The first machines from all of these makers very closely resemble the Singer 20. The Japanese made Lead (All Lead) machines were produced from 1931 until 1941. These seem to have been even closer replicas of the Singer 20.