A2coins Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Hello all, I'm new to this site and love cars. I also like metal detecting. I live in Ann Arbor Michigan and was hoping I could get some information on this tag. My camera on my phone is cracked but here is the best picture I was able to get. The tag is about the size of a stick of gum. The tag says "Dodge Brothers Business Coupe Patent Pending Detroit U.S.A. Is this tag collectible? Anyone know what year this might be from, etc. Still trying to post a picture I think I posted in the wrong forum so I posted again here. Thanks in advance. Pics are not working... Edited 15 minutes ago by A2coins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Send the photos to me and I will post them here. John keiser 31 @ charter. net no spaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 The tag... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 That is interesting. Pretty blurry, but interesting. I wasn't aware Dodge installed tags on the early cars stating the model. I'd like to know what year this is from as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 The Dodge Brothers "business coupe" started with the 1922 car model. So that tag may be from a 1922-26 business coupe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wetherbee Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Purely speculation, but is it possible that whoever made the wood for the body tagged it to keep it separated from regular coupe wood? It may explain why it’s not a commonly known tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 It may not be very common, but I have seen quite a few examples of this particular tag. I do believe that the tag was attached to a part of the floorboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 On 5/17/2018 at 4:38 PM, Mark Wetherbee said: Purely speculation, but is it possible that whoever made the wood for the body tagged it to keep it separated from regular coupe wood? It may explain why it’s not a commonly known tag. Could be due to the fact there were so many wood builder jobbers of that same time frame. I think the more appropriate question COULD be which builder used these tags ? Was it Lang, or one of the other passenger car builders. I doubt it would be one of the coach builders like HH Babcock or JT Cantrell or the many other truck/commercial builders. My research for builders has geared more around the truck builders. Maybe the key is to find someone in the DB community he knows more about the passenger car builders... specifically someone who knows the business coupe thoroughly. Would it be possible that the 4 door business coupe should be considered in this search also ? I doubt it but it's just a question that comes to mind... Tags are such an intriguing topic and clearly not enough information is available for the prewar time period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 13 minutes ago, 30DodgePanel said: Could be due to the fact there were so many wood builder jobbers of that same time frame. I think the more appropriate question COULD be which builder used these tags ? Was it Lang, or one of the other passenger car builders. I doubt it would be one of the coach builders like HH Babcock or JT Cantrell or the many other truck/commercial builders. My research for builders has geared more around the truck builders. Maybe the key is to find someone in the DB community he knows more about the passenger car builders... specifically someone who knows the business coupe thoroughly. Would it be possible that the 4 door business coupe should be considered in this search also ? I doubt it but it's just a question that comes to mind... Tags are such an intriguing topic and clearly not enough information is available for the prewar time period. They also made a "Dodge Brothers Business Sedan" tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 (edited) On 5/19/2018 at 9:49 AM, keiser31 said: They also made a "Dodge Brothers Business Sedan" tag. Sorry, I said 4 door Business Coupe...meant Sedan. That's one of my pet peeves when I see guys use that term incorrectly... embarrassed that I did Not sure why Greg laughed at this post but then again,,,, there are a lot of goofy people on this forum. Very strange indeed? Edited May 23, 2018 by 30DodgePanel (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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