Old Bike Haul, Looking for some Information

[joleothetall]

That JC Higgins should be about a 54. I have a twin to it in a girls bike with the same chain guard and sprocket.

Nice! Thanks. Somebody said he thinks it’s a 62 or 63 over on the Murray serial number thread but that’s the only response I’ve gotten over there. It’s looking like mid-fifties to early sixties sometime though

 

[Archie Sturmer]

That JC Higgins should be about a 54. I have a twin to it in a girls bike with the same chain guard and sprocket.

Somebody said he thinks it’s a 62 or 63 over on the Murray serial number thread but that’s the only response I’ve gotten over there. It’s looking like mid-fifties to early sixties sometime though

The Murray-built Sears JC Higgins looks like a middleweight bicycle and of that era; the Murray design may date back to 1958, but not earlier(?).

Thanks for the picture! You’re right, that is definitely different, but the number matches up and the rest of it does look really similar minus the….

The 4516 catalog reprint does not match.

Murray serial number project. | Classic Balloon Tire Bicycles 1933-1965

Needed to do this for a while, so here is what I have figured out so far. There has been many people along the way that has contributed and a few that has helped set me straight. hahaah. I don't know how far back this goes , but I know that Murray used a single letter to represent the year...

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Many bikes in one thread is so confusing.