Help ID Hawthorne

[koolkatz]

Anyone help me, ID this ladies bicycle. I can't figure out approx. date based on serial number.
Did it originally sell with the skirt guard or is that a purchased accessory?

 

[saladshooter]

I believe it to be a '40 Hawthorne Comet. Yes, the guards are original to this model.

Chad

 

[ratina]

The "14" stamp is the year backwards....so 1941

 

[Adamtinkerer]

1941 Snyder built.