Rare Tricycle

[jungleterry]

Hello my friend has decided to seel a couple of his very rare tricycles . This one you never see . So rare and a great example of a true survivor. Can deliver to butler show or Monroe in the spring . Thanks for your interest . Terry and Tammy
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[Rust_Trader]

That plane is not original. I wish it was, I’d be all over this.

 

[Drosentreter]

That plane is not original. I wish it was, I’d be all over this.

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Could the tricycles not be different?

 

[Rust_Trader]

Could the tricycles not be different?

That’s a Hubley toy, but you might be right. Maybe the company cheap out and stop making them out of aluminum and changed the base and attachment?

If there’s literature proving it’s different I’d be a buyer. I’m just going based on all the information here on the cabe. Also wondering why the badge does not have screws or rivets? Do the holes line up to the badge?

 

[Freqman1]

Kinda look like old pop rivets on the badge.

 

[New Mexico Brant]

Growing up with an antique dealer family about 20 miles from the Hubley plant we saw and owned several cast iron Lindy fender ornaments. It may be possible Shelby had the exclusive on the aluminum version? The tricycles were made by a completely different company (Hall); did they buy the iron versions from Hubley? Back then remember seeing a Hubley catalog that offered the cast iron Lindy planes as toys or fender ornaments that retailers could directly purchase from them.

 

[New Mexico Brant]

Does the badge say Hall or Shelby? It is so blury it is hard to read. If it says Shelby it is not the correct badge. These tricycles were built by Hall. Reference example in post number 25 on this thread:

Is this really a Lindy? | Antique Bicycles Pre-1933

The smaller Lindy badge read something like "...AND SUPPLY CO. MINNEAPOLIS" I am guessing that may have been Island Cycle and Supply. They may have acquired that Brand after Shelby no longer wanted it? and continued to put it on little riders.

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[Freqman1]

The badge says Shelby