Badge decipher

[biker]

Looking to decipher this bike badge looks to be from Buffalo N.Y.

 

[barneyguey]

Champion Heil Brothers

 

[barneyguey]

Looking to decipher this bike badge looks to be from Buffalo N.Y.

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Do you have photos of the whole bike? Thank you. Barry

 

[biker]

Do you have photos of the whole bike? Thank you. Barry

That's it. Thanks. Wonder if they were a department store in the area? Badge is kinda crummy though, already gouged at the top by "M" in CHAMPION.

 

[barneyguey]

That's it. Thanks. Wonder if they were a department store in the area? Badge is kinda crummy though, already gouged at the top by "M" in CHAMPION.

It was a bicycle shop.

MR. HEIL AND HIS BROTHER GEORGE FOUNDED HEIL BROTHER’S IN 1919, AT 640 BROADWAY.

THEY SPONSORED ANNUAL BICYCLE RACES IN BUFFALO.

 

[biker]