Identification Help, Please And Thanks.

[Jewelman13]

View attachment 284404 View attachment 284405 Interesting project.

Tell me more about this "Eagle" head badge. That looks really close to the shape of my great grandfathers bike pic.

 

[Jewelman13]

I was able to make the photo a negative... But don't know if it did anything worth doing...

 

[redline1968]

A albumin print not tin type. Eagle looks like it

 

[ejlwheels]

chainwheel resembles 1900ish Sears Napoleon

 

[Jewelman13]

Here's a close up photo of the head badge, using a few filters. Tried to clean it up to see if I could get a clearer image...

I pulled this image off of google of a 1900's Sears Napoleon bicycle ad. It sure looks like the chain ring and bike...

The mystery continues...

 

[bricycle]

So my parents sent me a photo of a tin type found while restoring an antique pie safe. It's been passed down from family member to family member. He found it tucked in the back of one of the shelves. My father knows I have a passion for bikes and so he sent me copy of the tin type. I would like to know what kind of bicycle it is and maybe get my hands on one.... All I have for photos is this:

Ps I know the photo is backwards. That's how my father sent it to me.

I hope the photos are helpful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Guess badge is different...? but similar fork style (pg 15 post 286) http://thecabe.com/forum/threads/iv...ng-place-for-dating-ij-bicycles.37533/page-15

 

[fordsnake]

The characteristics of your frame appears to be mid-late 1890's (pre the ABC consortium), which accounted for over 100 bike manufacturers and jobbers…hard to discern the maker without the head badge…chainrings were not always proprietary.

 

[bricycle]

FYI, I checked all 13 pages of this particular thread... no badge matching it. http://thecabe.com/forum/threads/vintage-head-badges-photos.26320/

 

[Jewelman13]

The characteristics of your frame appears to be mid-late 1890's (pre the ABC consortium), which accounted for over 100 bike manufacturers and jobbers…hard to discern the maker without the head badge…chainrings were not always proprietary.

Who's bike is that? That looks like the one pictured in my photo. Looks to be just like it but with a different head badge. My photo head badge might have been a particular store that sold a few bikes... But never got documented.

 

[Jewelman13]

Mirror image of the bike...