BABYLET - Custom bicycle - 1930
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Brand BABYLET, a barber’s bicycle from Italy, dating to 1930 and fully restored, equipped with a table, sink, water carafe, towels, a damigiana water reserve, mirror and client saddle, and a barber’s tool box with period brushes, soap, razor, leather strop, scissors, talc, combs, brushes, shampoo and aftershave.
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The trade bicycles were born in the early decades of the 1900s. They were one-of-a-kind bicycles that were modified and customized to allow performing one’s commercial or artisanal activity itinerantly.
Barbers, photographers, knife grinders, shoemakers traveled on two wheels, carrying with them tools and equipment to work directly at the clients’ homes and in Italy’s scattered farmhouses.
These bicycles were true mobile workshops with attachments for tools, utensils, containers and everything needed.
In Italy there are museums dedicated to trade bicycles.
The barber’s bicycle is one of the most fascinating variants.
This specimen is equipped with a small table, a sink, a carafe for washing the hair, a towel, a demijohn with a water reserve, a mirror and a seat for the customer.
The barber’s tool box contains: a shaving brush, shaving soap and its bowl, razors, a leather strop, scissors, a manual razor, a talc jar, combs, brushes, shampoo and aftershave of the era, all strictly from the period.
The box bears the barber’s initials and is personalized with advertisements for products of the time.
The bicycle has an original Brooks saddle and other original details such as an Aprilia headlight, rod brakes with bakelite grips on the handlebars, etc.
The trade bicycles were born in the early decades of the 1900s. They were one-of-a-kind bicycles that were modified and customized to allow performing one’s commercial or artisanal activity itinerantly.
Barbers, photographers, knife grinders, shoemakers traveled on two wheels, carrying with them tools and equipment to work directly at the clients’ homes and in Italy’s scattered farmhouses.
These bicycles were true mobile workshops with attachments for tools, utensils, containers and everything needed.
In Italy there are museums dedicated to trade bicycles.
The barber’s bicycle is one of the most fascinating variants.
This specimen is equipped with a small table, a sink, a carafe for washing the hair, a towel, a demijohn with a water reserve, a mirror and a seat for the customer.
The barber’s tool box contains: a shaving brush, shaving soap and its bowl, razors, a leather strop, scissors, a manual razor, a talc jar, combs, brushes, shampoo and aftershave of the era, all strictly from the period.
The box bears the barber’s initials and is personalized with advertisements for products of the time.
The bicycle has an original Brooks saddle and other original details such as an Aprilia headlight, rod brakes with bakelite grips on the handlebars, etc.
Details
Era
1900-2000
Brand
BABYLET
Year of Manufacturing
1930
Located in
Italy
Condition
Fully restored
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