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1910s Gendron Pioneer Tricycle Vintage Toy Standard Velocipede Bicycle

$ 198

Availability: 99 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Number Of Wheels: 3
  • Featured Refinements: Vintage Tricycle
  • Condition: Stored in a bone dry apartment, and rust free (as far as I can tell, but you can see better than I by magnifying the photos). This is an outstanding exemplar of a 100+ year old child's bicycle tricycle. This a rideable museum piece in outstanding condition, everything is there, and perhaps a bolt or two needs to be tightened. Please see all photos, which are self-explanatory. Front wheel is easily detached and put back on.
  • Year: 1910
  • Brand: Gendron Pioneer
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Type: Tricycle

    Description

    Item is located in Manhattan, NYC.  Please message me with any questions, or more pics (I can only post 12)
    Its been in the family years, I've ridden it as a child, and there is no more room to store it, so it much be sold.  Viz the research done, it is this:
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    Unfortunately, the only way I've been able to research the trike is by comparing to others, so I can't be 100 percent sure. It is literally identical to the bike it claims to be... Have a look and you'll see what I mean:
    put my listing title in the google browser, and you'll find its twins
    . Let me know what you think, this is problem I have will many of my antiques....I'm not a specialist appraiser, and many don't come with tags/hallmarks or whatever to let you know WTF it is ;-). Its local pick-up only, so if you would just like to take a look at it in person, no problem at all
    1910s Gendron Pioneer Tricycle Vintage Toy Standard Velocipede Bicycle
    All Gendron bikes and trikes have an important pedigree – Peter Gendron was instrumental in the development of the metal wheel, and the company’s brand name ‘Pioneer’ was therefore apt.
    In the late 1890s Gendron was a big exporter to France, and his machines were sold there until France established its own cycle industry, after 1900.
    This is one of the earliest styles of Gendron velocipede tricycle, described by the company as a ‘truss frame’ and easily distinguished from the more refined versions of the 1920s-1950s by the cruder rear end:
    I've dated this one to somewhere in the mid 1910s...1914-1917 or so

    A velocipede is always welcomed by any boy.’