concept
Singer & Co. sewing machines
Singer sewing machines
also: швейные машины Зингера, Zinger
The real American sewing-machine manufacturer, whose Russian sales agency was a common line of provincial commission work; invoked as one more overstuffed credential on Pishchik-Zabludovsky's card.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Lazarev, 1 November 1889. Moscow. §7 Singer's
The Singer Manufacturing Company (sewing machines), which had a Moscow sales office in this period; used here as the place where Lazarev's money reportedly went missing, apparently functioning as a bank-like or shipping intermediary in this instance.
- Visiting Cards §5 швейные машины Зингера
Singer & Co., the American sewing-machine maker, whose Russian sales network relied heavily on small-town commission agents -- one more line-item padding out a single overstuffed card.