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Identification Of A Circa 1900 Lady Bike

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JEAN MARIE

Look Ma, No Hands!
Hi ,

I purchased recently this old lady bike , which shows some typical US made features ;
rear oblique wheel axis attachment, crank , and head badge holes

I like the wooden rims, fenders and chain guard

the seller restored it about 10 years ago , but I don't like the way it was re painted, and will revert to more original look

would you guys help me identify it ?

thanks in advance

JM

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thanks a lot

which year do you think it might be ?

by any chance, could you tell me wher could I find a picture of the headbadge of en Eagle bike of this age , and / or pictures of similar Eagle bikes ?

cheers
 
nice bike, but is the nickel all painted silver? I don't mind the black paint, most of these TOC bikes came in black
do you have a clearer picture of the coaster brake arm?
 
yes , alas, all the nickel silver aluminum painted ; I've started removing it on the handlebar and , when I've time, I hope I can revert to nickel or raw material ; at least this paint makes some protection for the time being

on the black paint , I expect I can give some oldish patina by specific " polishing"

I will take more precise picture of the coaster brake tomoro

In the mean time , I've found some indication on our french forum tontonvelo
http://forum.tontonvelo.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1890&hilit=eagle

this is the Girl's bike

but I'm a bit confused by the title " EAGLE 1902" , as I saw on wikipedia that Eagle went out of business in 1900

so , which year is it from ? before 1900 or later ?
 

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Hi Locomotion ,

hereunder the picts of coaster arm which reads french and english wordings ; it's a Spencer Rochester NY , most probably imported and engraved in France with RS breveté SGDG ( which stands for "Sans Garantie du Gouvernement" = without government warranty)
It may indicate that the bike was imported by a french manufacturer or distributor and rebranded then;

other clues may be the TERROT saddle , the front fender " le touriste " which isn't present on the Eagle catalog, and the many holes for the headbadge (s) ; the Eagle one may have been replaced by another one

at this stage our detective work is not completed yet ...

I 've made an attempt on the handle bar to see how is the original nickel , and at first sight , it seems fair ;
hence, if other parts are similar , I may remove all the paint and just polish the nickel ; do you agree on that ?

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Wiki is wrong, shockingly enough. Eagle was making bikes in 1902. That bike looks close to an 1899 Model 51.

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thanks for your input Pelletman ; I wish it's a 1899 one, which would be my oldest bike so far

but I see at least 2 diffrences between mine and the model 51 :
-the upper bent tube arrives largely higher on saddle tube on mine than on model 51
-the chain fender is different

and I guess that the shape of the sprocket design is slightly different around the crank axis ( mine is more rounded , sorry for my english )
 
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