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Unbadged Chainless ID Assistance Please!

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New Mexico Brant

Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Does anyone recognize this chainless? 3” spacing center to center on the badge holes. Very delicate fork, cranks, and other treatments. It has a six digit serial number: 797167.

Thank you for any help!

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Definitely looks crescentesc. Esp the cap by the cranks and the knurling on the gear cover. Plus it's got the hub activated scrub brake abc used. Only problem I the way the rear is done is totally wrong for crescent + badge holes
There has to be some sort of connect.
Here are pics of my 1899(I think) Crescent. There seem to be several differences...
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Thank you Jim. Yes, definitely a rear spoon brake; it would be great to see another complete example to see how it is actuated.
my guess is a ABC era brand, but not Columbia.
the spoon brake and rear hub is ABC
I have a few of those spoon brake ABC Columbias, I will try to snap a picture of one tomorrow.
you just need a cloth hanger piece of steel (correct length) to go from the hub shorty brake arm to the spoon brake hole
one end is threaded (spoon brake end) with a square nut and the other end is twisted in (hub end)
I also have a bike that both ends are twisted
if I remember correctly, the brake arm should be pointing up to have the correct length to brake ratio.

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