You are most welcome.
But the best way to show thanks is to stop repeatedly crediting "john" with the entire Monark serial list info. While much of what is on that list is fiction and WAG (wild-assed guesses), the bits that are accurate originated primarily from me. Unfortunately whoever first printed this stuff did not choose to tell people
where this info was really, actually sourced and thus took credit for ALL of it.
As for the claims about how rare the serial number is on the left axle slot ear, not true. Many MSK products had serial numbers in this location before the war. I have owned hundreds of them over the years.
I once had piles of prewar Monark "Super Frame" bicycles and many were stamped likewise (couldn't give them away back in the 1970s and 1980s). I wrote their first history decades ago in CBWN, which was the very first newsletter in the hobby and in fact started the hobby. It has often been imitated, but it was never equalled.
Anyway, Monark's serial number location was so convenient and so intelligent that the almighty Schwinn began imitating it on their own bicycles... as of 1952. Nobody seemed to realize that this "brilliant invention" was merely an imitation of Monark.
Leon Dixon
National Bicycle History Archive of America
(NBHAA.com)
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