Picked this beauty in the rough up this weekend for a pretty reasonable price, considering it was in an antique mall. It could stand to be “un-patinaed” a little bit, but I can see enough of the head badge and chain guard to make out it’s a Wards Hawthorne Jet Star. Haven’t really looked for comps online yet, but without skip-tooth I’m guessing early to mid fifties. Fenders need a little massaging where they’ve widened out, but no real dents and tank is straight as an arrow under all that paint.
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