New Departure Coaster Brake; The Brake that brought the Bike back

Bristol, Connecticut: The New Departures Mfg. Co, 1905. First edition. Decorative Pin. Near Fine. Wonderful "pinwheel" calendar with comical color illustrations of elongated, El Greco-ized men attired in eighteenth century garb riding bicycles. Each month is marked by a card, most of which is dominated by the illustration. At the top of each card are four or more lines of rhymed promotional doggeril. The cards are 20 by 8 cm, and one can fan them out, with the decorative pin acting as a pivot point. The color palette is red, gold and green mostly. Scarce, with no copies of this located on OCLC or elsewhere, and the format, combined with the original (truncated) illustrations, we also find quite novel. With an used mailing envelope. (Inventory #: 006048)