Help Identifying & Valuing My Dad's Collection

[pelletman]

If that VanCleve headbadge is real it is very valuable. It may be a reproduction, I am not sure.

 

[Freqman1]

If that VanCleve headbadge is real it is very valuable. It may be a reproduction, I am not sure.

Guys look at post #7 here and then look again at that badge.

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Thread 'Wright Brothers and W.F.Meyers'

Oct 19, 2017

1909 era The Wright Brothers sold the contents of 1127 West Third Dayton,Ohio Cycle Shop to W.F.Meyers of Dayton,Ohio. Meyers had been in the cycle business for years in Dayton,Ohio. He also was granted use of the Wright Brothers namebadge that was used on the St.Clair, VanCleve & Wright Special by the Wright Brothers they had built and sold. Meyers badge W.F.Meyers on it in place of Wright. The bicycle were built by Davis Sewing Machine with Meyers badges on them.He sold Iver Johnson and other makes until 1939. He was struck by a automobile after stepping off a trolley. He...

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[Archie Sturmer]

The "Van Cleve" badge may have been a tribute to the pioneering settler of Dayton OH, Benjamin Van Cleve.
We see that things of Dayton and Ohio were of special interest to Patrick.