These are the cabinets that you could get for your new Singer model 27 ca.1910, from basic to deluxe, from utilitarian to sumptuous -- and all, really, things of beauty!
(This is the one that our machine is in. "Open case" apparently refers to the fact that the side drawers are not fully enclosed but simply slide along a three-tiered case made of open slats. Both the open-case and the closed-case versions -- in the image just below -- have "embossing" on the sides, so it isn't apparent what the functional advantages of either form are.)
All of these images are from Historical Trade Literature in Smithsonian Collections.
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