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Headtube badges about cycling history

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Headtube badges, in earlier times craft was elevated to art.
Badges finished with enamel, in relief and sometimes with an overlying motif.
Nowadays they have  become a collector's item. 

 

 

Vintage bicycle headtube badge head tube badge Coppi Mercier
Poulidor flanked by Fausto

 

Vintage bicycle balhoofdplaatjes headtube head tube badge Coppi Mercier
Unlike in reality, here together again
Vintage bicycle balhoofdplaatjes headtube head tube badge Devos Plum Venturi
When East meets West (-Flanders)

 

 

Vintage bicycle balhoofdplaatjes headtube head tube Belgian Belgisch
Across the language border ...
Vintage bicycle balhoofdplaatjes headtube head tube badge Novy Norta Lea
When North meets West (Antwerp - West-Flanders)

 

Vintage bicycle balhoofdplaatjes
Even stem badges exist, just have to get the right size ...

 

 

Year
1920-?

Comments

Submitted by Jos van der Horst (not verified) on Wed, 06/08/2022 - 12:18

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Ik heb afgelopen jaar een boek uitgebracht over rijwielmerken, waarin zo'n 600 balhoofdplaatjes staan afgebeeld.
Voor meer info kunt U mij mailen/Users/Jos/Desktop/Schermafbeelding 2021-04-23 om 09.35.35.png

Ik vrees dat er iets is mis gegaan bij het plaatsen van een foto. Interesse is er er zeker over uw boek of extra informatie hierover.

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