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Cooper S.

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Picked this up from a caber thinking it was going to be a mead, but with 3” vertical headbadge spacing that is probably not the case. It has a bottom bracket serial number of what looks like A12509. I saw a similar sprocket in the “sprocket compilation” thread listed as a hawthorn but the cranks and bottom bracket don’t look original so it might not be either. Any ideas what it is?

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The ribbed forks are nice. I believe that the oval-shaped rear forks at the bottom bracket might be a clue?
Excelsior had oval-shaped rear forks; but their bridges between the stays and between the rear forks looked different (in the 1920's).
There was a 1912-14 design patent USD 45,457 for ribbed front forks.
 
The ribbed forks are in the Mead brochure from 1913 and on. I don't have anything earlier. Following are items that show the replacement sprockets and forks, with ribs and 3 plates for crown. Note the 4 circles in sprocket. Only the child's Mead Magnet model showa that sprocket being used. These pictures are from the 1915 brochure, and 1918 has them as well.
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My issue with that is that it has vertical headbadge holes unlike a mead which has horizontal. Unless there’s some obscure early mead badge.
The ribbed forks are in the Mead brochure from 1913 and on. I don't have anything earlier. Following are items that show the replacement sprockets and forks, with ribs and 3 plates for crown. Note the 4 circles in sprocket. Only the child's Mead Magnet model showa that sprocket being used. These pictures are from the 1915 brochure, and 1918 has them as well.
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3” badge holes may be uncommon; and I believe that a member Scott may have a few nice ones on eBay, (with dimensions).

Was thinking that the chain ring sprocket looks like a Snyder, fork like a Davis, and the diamond frame might be an (almost) anything.
 
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Take a look at the sprocket on this schwinn built hawthorn. Fork crown different.

 
I was thinking schwinn at one point due to the bottom bracket serial numbers. Maybe if it’s 412509 instead of A12509 it could be
Take a look at the sprocket on this schwinn built hawthorn. Fork crown different.

 
so after so more looking around, I noticed a lot of similarities between my frame and other teens schwinn built bikes. I asked Jesse McCauley (I’d tag him but idk his cabe handle) and he says the Schwinn World badge has just under 3” hole spacing. I also asked someone who has an excelsior badge and he says they’re about 3” spacing aswell. Also I found an old thread about a 1916ish excelsior with a very similar serial number placement as mine. https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/arnold-schwinn-excelsior-truss-bar-dating.56941/
So is it safe to assume it’s a schwinn built bike of some variety?
 
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