BABYLET - Custom bicycle - Unknown
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Brand BABYLET, frame size 45, located in Italy; this used barber’s bicycle is an itinerant workshop equipped with a table, sink, water jug, towels, a mirror and a client seat, plus an original tool casket.
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Trade bicycles were born in the early decades of the 1900s. They are one-off bicycles that were modified and personalized to enable carrying out one's commercial or artisanal activity in an itinerant way.
Barbers, photographers, knife-grinders, and shoemakers traveled on two wheels, bringing with them tools and equipment to work directly at clients’ homes and in the remote farmsteads of Italy.
These bicycles were true mobile workshops with mounts 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, towels, a demijohn with a water reserve, a mirror and a seat for the client.
The barber’s tool chest contains: a shaving brush, shaving soap and its bowl, razors, a leather razor hone, scissors, a manual razor, a jar of talcum powder, combs, brushes, shampoo and aftershave of the era, all strictly from the period.
The box bears the barber’s initials and is customized with advertisements for products of the era.
The bicycle has an original Brooks saddle and other original details such as an Aprilia lamp, rod brakes, a handlebar with Bakelite grips, etc.
Trade bicycles were born in the early decades of the 1900s. They are one-off bicycles that were modified and personalized to enable carrying out one's commercial or artisanal activity in an itinerant way.
Barbers, photographers, knife-grinders, and shoemakers traveled on two wheels, bringing with them tools and equipment to work directly at clients’ homes and in the remote farmsteads of Italy.
These bicycles were true mobile workshops with mounts 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, towels, a demijohn with a water reserve, a mirror and a seat for the client.
The barber’s tool chest contains: a shaving brush, shaving soap and its bowl, razors, a leather razor hone, scissors, a manual razor, a jar of talcum powder, combs, brushes, shampoo and aftershave of the era, all strictly from the period.
The box bears the barber’s initials and is customized with advertisements for products of the era.
The bicycle has an original Brooks saddle and other original details such as an Aprilia lamp, rod brakes, a handlebar with Bakelite grips, etc.
Details
Frame size
45
Brand
BABYLET
Year of manufacture
Unknown
Located in
Italy
Condition
Used
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