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Suspect Streamline.

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Yea, the head tube rake looks off, but it’s an illustration so we need an actual bike to check for reference. Also, the eBay bike has a Dayton badge with screws, this may be a bottle cap badge originally?
 
Maybe @New Mexico Brant can give us a better side shot of his bike for comparison? V/r Shawn

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I don't know if somebody "made" a bad frame but rather just did a bad repair job to an og frame. The steep head angle is consistent with a heavy front end impact which essentially is going to bend all three main tubes and the head tube down. There probably was some attendant damage at the joins between the three main tubes and head tube and that's why you see a thick over braze in the lower opening. It's expensive, difficult and involved to correct a frame with these kind of issues but it can be done.

The bladed to fork is period correct 1936 or before, but from another non truss rod equipped model. A few others here are more knowledgeable but I believe this frame style was offered only 36 and 37 with some variations within those years.
 
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