1910s Gendron Pioneer Tricycle Vintage Toy Standard Velocipede Bicycle

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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.’