Buddy Seat identification

[DeltaElite]

I got a Buddyseat that I can't properly identify.
According to seller it was purchased by his Father in 1956 for his WLC. Question is : is it aftermarket or OEM?

It has definitely an all leather cover. Seems to be foam padded. But it has no overlapping seams.

Has vent holes. Looks like HD, but has no stamping on it. According to Palmers this can't be really OEM since the rivets look different than anything in the book.

Who knows what it is? Year?

[RooDog]

Can't you crop your pictures?

[panhead]

Peter Paul Rubens pornography?

[RooDog]

See, now wasn't that easy?

[panhead]

Background picture

[RooDog]

Oh, that makes it all OK....

[RUBONE]

Oh brother, get a life...

[DeltaElite]

Can't you, please, crop the pornography out of your pictures?

As requested, pictures were cropped. I took the photos with my smartphone to make sure everything is on the pic in detail and to make a fast upload of the question. I did not actually realize the background since it is normal for me. It took me approx 15mins to download the pictures on my desktop, crop them and reupload them after deleting the initial pictures. I hope You appreciate. I did not intend to irritate You. Please accept my apology for that.

OffTopic:
However, without wanting to offend You or Your feelings or religion or whatever:

You are absolutely right, the background has nothing to do with the question. But the background also has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with pornography. I reject that claim and condemn it utterly! This painting of Peter Paul Rubens was made in A.D. 1618, more than 150 years before the USA were even founded, a time where purity, pudency and morals were much stricter than anything that could be found today. Rubens' paintings, even showing nude bodies, can be found even in the Vatican in Rome. I guess You don't want to claim that the Vatican is displaying pronography, do You? Calling this Pornography is - sorry to say - utmost absurd. Are we yet falling behind standards of 1618 ???
Please don't start to cancel-culture here. There's enough of this cancer already spreading everywhere. Don't let it grow here, please and only call things by their real names. This is - I say again - NO Pornography!
End of OffTopic

[DeltaElite]

See, now wasn't that easy?

Actually....No.....it took my about 20 minutes of my life now. DeltaElite out!

[RUBONE]

As for the buddy seat, the pan appears to be stock H-D although the welded on mount in front is not stock. The seat cover is not any style ever done by H-D. It was most likely recovered in the past in a fantasy style but with an early open seam design.

[Larry]

I missed it. Can you post it again? Paul Rubens, as everyone knows, is Pee Wee Herman.

[droptopford]

Also... I believe the double tubed hand rail is a later style than would have been available in '56.
(However, the added strength and security afforded by the double rail would certainly come in handy with one of those Rubens chicks riding back there.)

[1950Panhead]

Recovered sometime since 1956

[DeltaElite]

Puh, next problem:

trying to remove railing for taking care of the rust on the underside of seat-pan.....but i can't get the railing through the holes in the leather-skirt.

Any tricks?

[BreakerJo]

As to the subject shell assembly, it may be a 1939 or earlier type of shell assembly with a homemade bracket and reinforcement plate and homemade vent holes. I'm not familiar with any type of vented OEM shell assembly with vent holes like the subject vent holes.

As to removing the rail, stiff/brittle leather and smaller-than-usual holes in the housing may make it difficult. You could try to condition the leather, but I don't know if that would help enough or how much time it would take. If you want to mitigate the risk of cracking the housing, then you may need to remove the housing together with the rail (i.e., at the same time).