Crown Cyrus Great Western crank arm stamping

[stingrayjoe]

I bought this and picked it up yesterday. It is a project just to get it up and running again.

There is a stamping with a Patent date on the L side crank arm but the date is obscured and the makers mark on the top line looks double stamped.

Could it read -

"FAUBER PATENT _ _ _ _ _"?

 

[Andrew Gorman]

Looks like a Fauber. If you rub a piece of aluminum foil over the stamping that might make the letters a little more clear.

 

[pedal4416]

Yes. Crown used Fauber stamped cranks.

 

[pedal4416]

From my Crown

 

[Archie Sturmer]

Nice bike.
Patent 492,959 for “Velocipede” was granted on March 7, 1893; (applied for July 18,1892); however, William H. Fauber apparently would not produce until 1895, when the workability problems were resolved, by other patented designs; (see 1895-1900 patent 643,349).

The “3-Arm” chain ring sprocket design was patented as a “Sprocket Wheel for Bicycles” about mid-1899, but the variant seen above is different (see drive pin location), which means later than ToC.

 

[stingrayjoe]

From my Crown

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Now that is a nice legible stamp!

Thank you.

 

[locomotion]

love that paint color, looks like "french gray"
if would be awesome if someone had a "modern" paint code for it, I would definitively use it on a project

 

[stingrayjoe]

Mocked up for now.

 

[stingrayjoe]

Added a chain and cleaned some of the old grease build up and dirt off.

 

[Goldenrod]

What a find!