Bicycles On Stamps...

Cadel, you little bewdy!
all those very late sleepless nights were worth it,
a fantastic effort by cadell and his team,
and gracious comments from the Luxembourg boy
Andy Schlek.
Australia's time in the sun.

We now wait for the stamp/s

Congrats to Cadel!

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a bicyclist, designed by Albert Decaris, engraved by Claude Durrens, and issued by Morocco on September 26, 1960 for the Summer Olympic Games, Scott No. 47.

- nethryk

Very nice!
we can observe how the bike has developed,
exposed water bottle and brake cables,
wheel spinners, and foot clips,
and maybe the styrofoam helmet has not arrived.

rod222 - Thanks! And now for something even more primitive: Une draisienne (hobby horse), c. 1809, designed and engraved by Jacques Combet, and issued by Mali on August 12, 1968, Scott No. 110.

- nethryk

There's an error on that stamp!

1809

I think that should be 1819

As a former cyclist of some seriousness, I am wondering what "wheel spinners" might be?

[edit: And then, regarding the error issue, I see two different dates on the Interwebs: Baron von Drais invented the Draisienne in 1816, or in 1817.]

Probably country slang, wheel spinners were
the butterfly nuts, you cracked open then spun
to loose the (front)wheel.
Before the modern cam lock of today probably.
I had spinners or butterfly nuts on my old "super elliott"

The early bike then is cloudy, but 1809
certainly looks like an error.

I'm young enough that this is all I know...



Are you talking about something that predated this?

Absolutely :)
yours is a modern cam,
ours were just butterfly nuts
Perhaps you know it as a wing nut?
butterfly nut - a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning.

We had a footballer in our state team, who had rather projecting ears,
and of course he was baptised in Aussie slang as "wing nut"

These are completely unknown to me,
Any additional information would be gratefully received.

We have, perhaps cinderella labels of the French resistance
a set of six
3 each in Myrtle green and Prussian blue.
Frames of pine nuts and flowers (which?)
and shields and posthorns, suggesting postally inspired propaganda

Fortunately we have one issue identifying the designer
as C Barre Paris, and Lithography? by C Hirlemann

White gum on slightly toned paper.


Perhaps the identical leather satchels on the two bicycles
would infer an official army detachment?
Some sort of bicycle corps

rod222 - For what it's worth, I would guess that these cinderellas are patriotic labels depicting World War I French Army bicycle infantrymen; the helmets are a dead giveaway. Charles Hirlemann was a French artist and illustrator with work (some bawdy!) that I've seen dating from 1926 to 1945, so he probably designed them. I suspect that C. Barre was the printer. Also, based on your labels' images, I would also guess that the printing process may have been photogravure. - nethryk

Here is an image of a typographed stamp depicting an exciting bicycle race, issued by Bulgaria on September 29, 1947 to publicize the Balkan Games held that year in Bucharest, Romania, Scott No. 578.

- nethryk

A great deal!
I thought I may have been on a lost cause there.
Thanks for your input, all helps!
I saw small images of french bicycle corps, and they had
what looked to be soft caps not helmets, this caused some
hesitation, then I thought perhaps Belgian.
So you think WW1, I wasn't sure there either.
Photogravure of course.

I really like hirlemann's illustrations here
he seems to matured somewhat, his early works
showed some weaker efforts for mine,
here is his effort of an old friend..



and more bicycle (Dunlop tyres)

Here's two more for the bike lovers..

Wow! Top stuff