Singer 211

[Curious Observer]

Wishing you a Good Day wherever you may be, personally it’s still early in the morning, MST. 
 

As many before me, I’ve been looking for a used sewing machine that will allow me to do light to medium leather projects. The amount of alternatives is mind boggling and I’m leaning towards a flat bed machine to start with. After doing a couple of postings on this site I feel there’s no where else I could get better information. I’m looking at a Singer 211, this one though ends right there, no numbers or letters to follow. 
 

Please share with me what you may regarding this model, I believe it’s an appropriate entry level machine for the things I want to make. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge, I appreciate it and wish you the best.

Mario

[dikman]

Mario, we'll need more information as 211 by itself doesn't mean a lot. There will be many model numbers after the 211 which will indicate exactly what they're for and where they were made. The 211 series of machines are good machines - but that's all that can be said without more info/photos.

[Curious Observer]

 

Dikman, this is the machine I was referring to. I am unable to see any further qualifiers past the 211 and wanted to see if someone might have come accross something similar and could share some insight. I appreciate you responding to my posting and if look forward to any further response after seeing the picture.

Thanks, Mario

[dikman]

I checked some images on google and the model number would be next to the 211 on the front but yeah, not enough detail in the photo to see. Can you contact the seller for more information? It looks to be a later model 211 and as long as it's working should be a nice machine - depending on the price, of course.

[Curious Observer]

dikman, I thank you again for your feedback. I’m presently working on purchasing the machine which would be my first industrial machine. As you mentioned, it should be a good machine and is reportedly in working order. If the shipping comes in reasonable I’m ready to, and excited to get it as it’s looking like a fair deal. I was trying to see if someone was familiar with this no further letters/ numbers following the 211 identifier. I have heard that it is a machine for which spare parts are not too rare and that it is the precursor to many other reliable machines. All in all things seem to be promising.  It will take me a while to get her online but I’m looking forward to get it, inspect it, clean it and eventually having it working as well as I can. I’m excited.

Thanks