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Headbadge missing - any ideas?

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M38A1

Look Ma, No Hands!
I'm trying to figure out what this one is....

Circa 1939 this was purchased in New York city by the Fains of Fain Oil Company. About 1945, the bike was handed down to my Dads family in Oklahoma City.

Tires are marked:
12.75x2.50
U-Y-N on the sidewall
Made in USA
United States Peerless Rubber Company
PatNo 27015.459 or 2,015.459
Inflate to 15lbs only

Any idea circa or what this is?

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Thanks!
 
Sorry to say i have no idea as to the maker or model. The only thing I can add is that the seat is not original for a circa 1939 child's bicycle. Troxel black rubber topped seats were usually found on early 1950s bicycles. They may have been used on some late 1940s kids bikes as well but not as far back as late 1930s from what I've seen.

Dave
 
Thanks Dave. The more I look at this the more I think a convertable boys/girls bile based on the two empty bolt tang slots fot a top tube.
 
I seem to find myself going down the rabbit hole of a possible circus clown bike. A Google search shows in 1944, operators looking to buy circus bikes with that tire size. Looking at the seat post top and headset, those tabs might possibly have been a triangulation a arm going to a center hub with maybe three or four of them running in a circle? Here's a clown bike for reference:
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