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Date your Jones Sewing Machine
Please see the below table to date your Jones Machine. From Sewing Machines we have had with manuals (from which you can get a date) to data collected via the Internet here is a very rough guide you can use to estimate the age of your Jones Sewing Machine.
Jones originally in or around 1880 started with a simply numeric list of serial numbers for all their machines. Whilst they continued this one numeric list it is possible to approximately date a machine. Jones in their wisdom started several different numeric and alpha-numeric serial number runs after 1935. *After that date it is impossible to accurately date machines.
If anyone has an original manual with their machine, please Contact Us and we will add your data to the table.
See photo which shows where date is shown, 9/38 equates to September 1938.

Serial Approx.
No. Year
1 12502 1880
2
3 30082 1882
4 35259 1883
5
6 91279 1890
7 97101 1891
7a 125728
8 191861 1907
9 234882 1914
10 241956 1916
11 276269 1916
12 279797 1916
12a 280598 1916
13 323723 1921
14 326234 1923
14a 327720 1921
14b 336947 1923
15 341636 1925
16
17 344254 1924
17a 378996 1926
18 380122 1926
19 381640 1926
20 405091 1926
21 410253 1927
22 420742 1929
23 486218 1933
24 489636 1935**
25 514594 1934
26 515714 1936**
27 522569 1935*
28 E174936 1938
** I realise this machine is slightly out of sync. I can only assume its a machine found in the factory at a later date and issued with a newly printed manual