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7 page photo illustrated article from a rare 1899 Victorian periodical -  the article is entitled "Decorated Bicycles" by Harold J Shepstone

Very interesting old article full of information about various carnivals, pageants etc around the world where bike decoration takes place - several photographic illustrations including

  • Design with which Mrs P L Hussey won the first prize at the Dayton Ohio carnival
  • The youngest Quad in Holland
  • Tandem flanked by singels Mr Duyl and his 3 daughters at Rotterdam
  • Youthful cyclists at the Red cross society pageant Temesvar Hungary
  • Baron and Baroness Van Reede Te Parkeler at Amsterdam
  • Mrs Rona's Wild Rose machine at Temesvar
  • Miss Brodersen and Mr Herdejost of the Hermann cycling club
  • Tandem ridden through Potsdam by Mr Steppin at the Germania Cycling club festival
  • Mr Arthur Thomas's Sunflower design at the Portmadoc cycling carnival
  •  Mr Koppl at the Franzenbad floral corso last summer
  •  A Salford wheeler x 2
  •  Miss Clara Finch as the floral queen
  •  Winners of the first prize carnival re accession of Queen Wilhelmina
  •  At the Franzenbad cycling club carnival
  • Lady's cycle decorated with precious stones

    • I have more cycling related articles currently on ebay.

    Please note these are pages extracted from a rare disbound Victorian publication, there are no covers and there may be extracts from other articles at the start or end and some pages may be showing signs of browning or foxing due to age of paper

    Whilst the images show the article in its still bound state, the article will be sent as loose pages.

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