Vintage or Antik Bicycles in India?
J. Bejšovec - an exposition with touch of nostalgia
The famous czech photographer Jan Bejšovec is my friend and he was a very popular chairman of Czech Velocipedist Club 1880 for a lot of years. All his photo exhibitions, where antik bicycles are showed, are always in centre of attention for all visitors. If you will look on our pictures you will quickly understand why.
Race Bicycles 1900 - 1960
Very rare collection "Racers before 1900"
All original pictures which are dated before 1900 and showed bicycle are very interesting. Especially with racers' names and their bicycles.
Fantastic atmosphere on track with motorcycles and bicycles
Toon Luijbregts - One of the big guys between bicycles
VELORAMA museum looks for a Michaux pedal
Hallo friends,
the Nationaal Fietsmuseum VELORAMA, Nijmegen – in Netherlands looks for one left pedal for boneshaker Michaux & Cie.
Does anyone have it for sale or trade (of course or both pedals) so let me know, please.
Or direct to Gertjan: info@velorama.nl
Thank you very much.
Favorit Rokycany - the bicycles made in the Czech republic
NEW BOOK: Claude REYNAUD –L´ére du Grand Bi en france1870 - 1890
The fantastic book specially about high wheels. The limited serie.
Collector’s caprices “PART 2” – postcards
The history of postcards began with a great many acts and events and it is difficult to specify the exact date of their emergence. Postcards had a complicated beginning over 15 years, from 1870 to 1885. However, real postcards emerged only with gradual developments and changes in the appearance of correspondence cards, which were proposed for sale and postal operations for the first time in the world in this country in the context of Austrian-Hungarian Empire on 1 October 1869.
Germany was the first other country to adopt this idea in the following year, and was rapidly followed by other countries. Correspondence cards with various imprints soon began to appear – including depictions of goods for sale, decorations around the edge, etc. It is still not clear by whom and where the first picture was printed on a correspondence card; however, we do know that this occurred sometime during 1870.
The golden age of postcards, also called the “classical period”, occurred after 1896 and lasted until approximately 1905. Postcards were especially useful in areas where a boring official-looking card was not suitable. In correspondence between lovers, for mutual well-wishing and for congratulations.
Genre postcards with bicycles were quite popular, but were rarely used compared to local views and are thus very rare. For clarity and greater interest, they can be divided into several groups:
1. LITHOGRAPHS
After 1890, lithographic postcards became very popular, particularly for their decorativeness. Collotype, letterpress and other techniques were used. Lithographic pictures, which often depicted several scenes with drawn-in motifs and graphically modified writing, are among the most decorative.
