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Cool! Is there a link to somewhere that describes how those number codes work? I’ve looked around but I can’t seem to make any sense of it. I saw somewhere that the 502 is a Murray built Sears bike but I couldn’t make heads or tails out of the rest of the number.The 502 is Murray of Ohio’s numbering code for bikes they built for Sears. Chances are that Sears marketed the bike as a JC Higgins. The 46xxx number is the model number. That number will also tell ou the year that the bike was sold as. Like new cars, late month bikes would be sold as the next years models. A kid wouldn’t want to receive a new bike for Christmas in 1957 and have it be last year’s model a week later In January of 1958. Bikes had to be in stores early enough for Christmas sales but be next the years model.