i.d. help 1899?

[Darvin Frey]

Looking for information on this bike. Has no markings and no badge. Would like to purchase a badge for it once I establish a maker and it's year. Also would like to install tires if anybody has suggestions. I've been told it is a Columbia or a Blue Streak. Wood rims..
Thanks in advance

 

[Archie Sturmer]

Chain ring reminds me of Sears Napoleon ads, not Westfield Columbia, unless very early.

But just a guess.
The coater brake hub looks like a New Departure model that Albert Fenimore Rockwell applied for patents in early 1900's.

 

[GiovanniLiCalsi]

The fork is the same as Racycle

 

[Darvin Frey]

Chain ring reminds me of Sears Napoleon ads, not tfield Columbia, unless very early.
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But just a guess.
The coater brake hub looks like a New Departure model that Albert Fenimore Rockwell applied for patents in early 1900's.

yes...it is a New Departure

 

[hoofhearted]

Miami-Built

 

[hoofhearted]

 

[New Mexico Brant]

Would like to purchase a badge for it once I establish a maker and it's year.

Darvin, can you please confirm if this bicycle has badge holes? A good photo of the head tube area would be helpful too. Many thanks, Brant

 

[Brian R.]

The saddle looks really great, and expensive if sold separately, but I don't think it's original to the bike. It looks like the heavy, chunky kind you'd see on a 1920s "Motobike" style bicycle. Here are two pages from the 1900 Rice Lewis & Son catalogue available online that show the American and English (Brooks) saddles that were in style at that time: