Feb 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2695 -

Sale 2695 - Lot 67

Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

RIDE THE COVENTRY CROSS CYCLES. Circa 1895.


58½x40 inches, 148½x101½ cm. J.T. Grover & Co., Ltd., Nottingham.
Condition B: repaired tears, replaced losses, creases and abrasions at edges and along vertical and horizontal folds; repaired tears in image; ink and paper stamp at top left. Two-sheets. Mounted on paper.

Coventry was, for a time, the epicenter of the bicycle market, growing out of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company's desire to branch out to new products. The Warman & Hazlewood company was founded circa 1887, and manufactured the Coventry Cross bicycle. The Coventry Cross Cycle Co. acquired Warman & Hazlewood in 1896.