Help with this American Bicycle company bike

[locomotion]

the holes on my Westfield Crawford badge are 1 11/16" apart
here is what my bike's badge looks like
but it may be pre-ABC .... not sure

 

[bricycle]

front tires worth a hundie. Kool bike.

 

[M & M cycle]

Circa 1900 - 1901 ... google American Bicycle Company ...
all the brands listed represent those companies bought
by Col. Pope.

If the chainring does not have a crank drive pin hole ...
there is every probability the machine is a Pope-Built.

You can pretty-much select a badge-name from the
list of ABC-Manufactured bicycles ... from the 1900-1901 period,

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Circa 1900 - 1901 ... google American Bicycle Company ...
all the brands listed represent those companies bought
by Col. Pope.

If the chainring does not have a crank drive pin hole ...
there is every probability the machine is a Pope-Built.

You can pretty-much select a badge-name from the
list of ABC-Manufactured bicycles ... from the 1900-1901 period, of course.

..... patric


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hi, this is a closeup of the area you hi lighted

 

[M & M cycle]

the holes on my Westfield Crawford badge are 1 11/16" apart
here is what my bike's badge looks like
but it may be pre-ABC
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Thank you for checking

 

[hoofhearted]

hi, this is a closeup of the area you hi lighted

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Thank you, young man. That is the area referred to.

Have owned several of the identical chainring design
(as yours). These were on various juvenile, West-
field-Built bicycles.

Some had what is often called a ''double-D'' feature ...
shifting energy that is put into the crank to transfer
into the chainring .. allowing it to rotate.

The other variation is identical to the ''crank drive pin''
setup .. just like you have.

Very often, when an orphan bicycle cannot be identified
because the badge is missing .. or because some of the
''tells'' that a frame / fork expressed to the viewer are not
available in a particular find -- or the viewer simply does
not connect the ''tells'' to the vehicle identity --- very often
the identification of major cranking components, leads to
the identification of the ride.

Very often, but not always, the chainring / crank nuances
help a viewer determine what's what.

When I see that ''double-D'' feature ... Westfield comes to mind.

But more specifically ... it's the Westfield-Built Columbia.

Fair Warning, however .. if the original cranking setup has been
changed-out with something alien to the bicycle ... all bets are off.

..... patric

 

[hoofhearted]