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Ok Pros. What did i get?
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Looks like a prewar hawthorne zep frame to me but not sure

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My hawthorne looks almost identical.

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Looks like a Colson "rainbow frame" to me. Zep frames were built by Snyder, and had far different geometry. The white Murray-built Mercury badged bike has similar ends (technically not drop-outs) in that they have the dropstand boss, but if you look closely, they're different from the Colson ends. I'd like to remind everyone that Hwthorne was a badge used on Montgomery-Wards bicycles; it was a brand of bicycle, but the frames came from a number of different builders.

Here's a pic of a similar frame (not mine) that I found here on RRB.
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Here's the thread I found it on; not sure what TRM ever ended up doing with it. http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/prewar-colson-frame.81174/
 
Yeah i know about hawthorne being only a badge. Mine is snyder built.

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Yeah i know about hawthorne being only a badge. Mine is snyder built.

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Here's my Snyder built Hawthorne.
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Ok Pros. What did i get?
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I still think you should scrape or wire brush the area where the serial is and then touch it up with some gloss black.
So, what are your plans for it?
 

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