humanpotatohybrid wrote:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/776640080930558/[/quote]

Interesting to see (folks today who restore classic-era bicycles still have not learned that the manufacturers never painted over the heads on fender brace rivets. The rivets came AFTER the paint job– not before). Also interesting coloration job on the headbadge...and certainly not the usual factory colors.

Although the Colson Company (and later, the Colson Corporation) did indeed manufacture SOME Packard bicycles, it is not accurate to say that Colson also "marketed" these bicycles or the notion of Packard bicycles.

One needs to thoroughly understand just how bicycles were marketed in the USA during the 20th century. Problem is that almost nobody in the vintage bicycle hobby today truly understands the process and the methods used. This is why so much guessing and presumption goes on with the various brand names and headbadges on vintage American bicycles.

National Bicycle History Archive of America has perhaps the largest collection of Colson and Colson-built Packard bicycle literature that exists today.