Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Backpedaling

What a great design for a bicycle-shipping crate! I’m pretty sure that it can also double as a caddy for enormous slices of toast or as the armature of a hoop-skirt.
The Victorian-era crate (with bicycle) was sold recently at the final auction of items from the now shuttered Pedaling History Museum. It’s yet another sad story of historic and cultural preservation gone awry in Buffalo, NY.

Lots of cyclenalia(?) to ogle at the Copake Auctions site.

Shawmut racing safety bicycle new in crate (c. 1913). Never uncrated. “New old stock,” as they say.


Some modern “crates.”


Bicycle stand, 1896


Rex bicycle, c.1898


Quintuple five man bicycle, signed "Francisco Cuevas" on frame.


Rollfast ski bike, DP Harris Co. NY.


Identified simply as "Bicycle Photograph."


What will they think of next?

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