Copake Auction October Information

[Phallon1]

Hey there Seth here from Copake Auction, our sale this year is October 21st at 9AM, swap is October 20th beginning at 6AM, this will be one of the best sales we have had in years, this year features 921 plus lots including: The Margaret Ann Baker Collection, Ed Berry Collection, Ed & Marion Gerling Collection, Lane Motor Museum Collection. The sale mainly focuses on early bicycles and material, plus a great collection of light weights from The Lane Motor Museum! Plus selected editions! We have some of the best material we have ever offered! Hope to see you all there! The catalog should be up later next week as we are just wrapping it up this week! We are really excited this year, one of the best selections of early bicycles we had in a long time and the smalls are incredible! We also will have a food truck this year for both days! Really honored to present these collections, very curated collections, the Ed Berry collection has some of the most interesting historical items ever presented at our auctions!

 

[catfish]

I can't wait!

 

[indianbicycle]

one of my favorite events of the year - see you soon!

 

[AS-1]

A little birdie told me they have the Holy Grail of Schwinn Catalogs, "The Round One." Wufff!

 

[ivrjhnsn]

I'll be dragging some Iver Johnson crap there...Been 6 years since there me thinks. Great swap, great people.

 

[Freqman1]

A little birdie told me they have the Holy Grail of Schwinn Catalogs, "The Round One." Wufff!

So is that an 1897 cat? It's the only one I know of in the round format. I've never seen a '96, the "pre" cat Bob has is in regular page format as is the '98 cat. not sure about the follow-on years.

 

[cyclingday]

Sounds fantastic!
Thanks for the update.

 

[AS-1]

So is that an 1897 cat? It's the only one I know of in the round format. I've never seen a '96, the "pre" cat Bob has is in regular page format as is the '98 cat. not sure about the follow-on years.

I'm going to say "yes" based on my understanding that the Round One only came out in 1897, but I wasn't there and I am not the historian you are. It is from the Ed Berry Collection and will be surrounded by a number of his treasures which have hardly ever seen the light of day.

 

[onecatahula]

Treasures such as . . . ?

 

[New Mexico Brant]

So is that an 1897 cat? It's the only one I know of in the round format. I've never seen a '96, the "pre" cat Bob has is in regular page format as is the '98 cat. not sure about the follow-on years.

I own a 1896 catalog, it looks like this: