Adding to the 1951 Roadmaster date debate...
As I mentioned in my first post, I think the catalog has the date wrong for the known Bob Feller Roadmaster (or perhaps it was issued over multiple years). I have attached two more ads for Roadmaster that connect the bike to the premium available by mail. Please note the ad previously attached in my first post was from 1941 (dated in the ad). The new attachments I believe are 1946 and 1948, respectively, although they are not dated in the ad so I will try to verify.
To recap, the catalogued Roadmaster Bob Feller is listed as 1951, and the ads seem to show that version premium was available much earlier (possibly as early as 1941, given the picture in the 1941 ad ultimately served as the original premium).
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Jason
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