Hi! I posted photos of my mystery fram. Thete are comments on each photo. The serial number is PPD891. It does not seem to match any formats that i can find. Your help is highly appreciated.

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no real educated guess but just "spit-balling"...Nishiki Kokusai (International)?

Nishiki came to my mind, too.

Were Nishikis equipped with rear brake stops like that? Seems I’ve only seen that on Brit bikes.

Good Morning and welcome to the forums. Can you tell us anything else? Did you get this as a frame only or were there parts on it? If so what are they? Do you the threading for the bottom bracket? Seatpost diameter? What country are you and the bike in?

Not Raleigh/Carlton, they had a round section, Dawes used a flat section and it was a bit trapezoidal in shape (the Raleigh ones were round both ways).

It certainly does look like a boom era Kawamura product. The pencil tip stay caps are typical of the early Kokousai/International manufactured under the American Eagle and Nishiki brands, as are the long point lugs and pillbox style cable stop on the chainstay. That bridge style cable stop with the bolt on barrel adjuster for the rear brake was used by Kawamura during this period, though off-hand I don't recall it on the Kokousai/International. I can't quite tell in the photos if the forged dropouts have the offset eyelets but they do look like they could be the style Kawamura was using during this era. The fly in the ointment is the S/N. I've seen literally hundreds of Kawamura serial numbers, including those used in several foreign markets, and I've never seen a triple alpha prefix. I'd appreciate a picture of the S/N itself.

Maybe I'm off, but it looks like it's been in a front-ender but the long-point lugs make it hard to confirm for sure.

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serial should be on underside of shell and may exhibit the WCCS marking

steerer, if present, may be .833 size

Kawamura


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