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New (to me) Elgin

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Hello. Cool old bike. Looks like this Swallow. Your bike seems lacking of the duckbill front fender shown in the catalogue and the rear skirt guard. Picture is from a 33-34 fall/winter Sears catalog page taken from the Elgin, Higgins, Hawthorn Collectable Bikes book available online. Great resource. Not sure of the value of your bike but that's only really figured by what someone wants to pay for it. Keep it as is for now unless you plan on riding it. Any attempt at fixing it up may reduce it's value if you don't know what your doing.
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A copy of this book is available on the CABE. Posted today here
https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/c...ns-hawthorn-hurd-gordon-25-00-shipped.145983/
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Does anyone else think the spacing between the fenders and the tires suggest that perhaps this bike may have originally been equipped with 28" tires/wheels? The bike in the pictured catalog boasts "28" cement-on tires 28 x 1-1/2". "

This bike has the same fork as is on the Elgin boys bike that was identified as a 35 in a thread I posted a couple of weeks ago. My bike has some weird spacing between the front of the rear tire and the fender but it too now has 26" wheels/tires.

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/help-i-d-ing-an-elgin.145507/#post-974418


Opps, update: I just went back and read post #11 by Bricycle. He said it first.
 
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