Who Knows Old Cars? Help Identify 1906 Automobile

vscience

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Anduril

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Looks like a key fob and the letters "AR" could be the owners initials.

Did cars have keys in 1906?

And I agree; looks like initials on the back, and nothing to do with a car manufacturer's logo or product name, branding, etc...
 

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I hate to put it this way, but there really isn't alot of detail in the drawing to distinguish it from one make or another. Most likely it was drawn as a " generic" car, or a "simple" version of someones car.
As ffuries stated, most likely initials of the owner.
Cars of that era did not need keys yet. Half of the population had not even seen a car in person, let alone know how to carjack it
 

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Yep. There were thousands of car makers in the early 1900's.
 

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