Need help identifying this bike

[cds2323]

Here's a 1910 Shapleigh catalog page showing a similar model.

 

[shoe3]

Here's a 1910 Shapleigh catalog page showing a similar model.View attachment 728303

st louis popular place for military type frames

 

[petritl]

Check/remove more paint under the bottom bracket. Check more in the center, away from the rim. Any single numbers or letters? There “MAY” be more digits. Thanks for sharing. That is an awesome frame! Hope this helps. Congrats

 

[Goldenindian]

Maybe something there? That ad cds2323 posted looks exactly right! Thanks for sharing that!

 

[petritl]

Maybe something there? That ad cds2323 posted looks exactly right! Thanks for sharing that! View attachment 728315

When did switch from block to roller chain take place?

 

[hoofhearted]

@hoofhearted

Thank you for the heads-up .. rollfaster !!

Both machines, Cast Iron guy (first machine) AND petritl (second machine)
are both Davis-Built. Second machine has no information as to who the
distributor was ... could be another hardware company like, Mumford & Son
Hardware Co.

Davis may have wholesaled the same model and color scheme machine to
seventeen different distributors.

cds2323 provided what appears to be a 1910 catalog illustration of the same
(as above) bicycle. The illustration features the same pedals, saddle, handle-
bar, and round-in-cross section crank.

The machines differ in the chainring design compared to the illustration.

Also ... Cast Iron guy's machine features a crank locknut that is of the pin-
spanner variety ... the illustration and petritl's crank locknut are not shown.

CORRECTION as of 10:44 P.M. EST ... it has now been photographically-
established that petritl's crank locknut is of the pin-spanner variety.

Waaay kool to see two survivors in roughly the same degree of survival.

....... patric

 

[Goldenindian]

 

[petritl]

Thanks for the notice; the badge will soon be on this bike.

 

[Goldenindian]

Awesome!..good to hear!