Technical Recognize this ancient steering wheel?

Rescued from an antique mall! Amazing wood joinery with complicated dowel joints at each bar. Wood looks like walnut. Any ideas?

 

Very early, very cool!
Nice rescue.....

 

Flintstone, Fred.

 

Looks boatlike. If so, could be really valuable. Just gotta find the right boat.

 

I wonder if early boats had horns? This has a horn button. Still a mystery. Check out the wood joinery.

 

Looks home made to me.

 

NOT home made. Looks very similar to the 1926 Chrysler Model 58 wheel. I had one. It is slightly different, but within that year range maybe for a different make. Looks like lights and throttle or spark and throttle levers on the hub.

 

Gene, It looks a bit like a Pierce Arrow wheel to me.

 

Very similar to my 26 Dodge Brothers

 

lol ... no @VANDENPLAS ?

... we're patiently waiting for the inevitable.

 

It's a Dodge?

 

I believe most Dodges have steering wheels with steel spokes and a wood perimeter.

 

... I just asked because every time he posts, he cracks me up. "It's a Dodge !! "

Im sorry !! Seriously not ... but still.

I'll leave now.

 

this guy knows what it is !!!

 

Nearest thing I've been able to find.

https://northwoodboatworks.com/reproduction-parts/52/


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1928 Nash

 

‘28 Nash Standard is close, but no cigar. The Nash had 2 retaining screws on the front of the center hub- and the shape of the levers is different.
I don’t think it had a nautical past- it’s not real and there is no brass.
The key may be the shape of the spark levers. These are slender turned affairs. Most others are loops.
The mystery persists.
Meanwhile, it’s going to get some long overdue preservation. Not restoration.

 

WAY COOL!!

 

Greenie ... here's a stab that showed up in my 1937 Hudson steering feed today.

Ready ?

Tah-dahhhh' !!



Here's the link >>

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/323773522465

They don't really know what the fugg' it is ... but are guessing early 1920's Lincoln.

Before these yahoos start throwing 'maters and succotash at me ... I'd like to state I dunno' the fugg' it is either.

- I endorse this message.

 

Similar, but no cigar. Thanks.

 

This is a 1924 Flint. It is very close. It seems the actual wood section would swap out to several other cars of the 20’s, suggesting various manufacturers were sourcing the wood wheel from an outside supplier.

 

Additional research reveals that this wheel was made in Onaway, MI by the American Wood Rim Company. 2 years later, in 1926, the Onaway plant burned to the ground- ending decades of wood steering wheel manufacture. If you google the American Wood Rim Company, you’ll find an interesting website that describes the history.
Meanwhile, our wheel is being preserved with Tung oil. The “after” pictures will follow.

 

Looks like blood on the wheel....

 

So post 3 was the closest then..........

 

A Norm Grabowski original?

 

Done.

 

That's really sweet! Do you think Grant makes an adapter for that?

 

Looks like my first ash tray I made in wood shop.