Let’s See Your Felt Advertising Items!

[New Mexico Brant]

From a 1912 Motorcycle Illustrated magazine:

 

[dasberger]

Not mine but different version of Morrow I came across

 

[Oldbikes]

 

[Rusty McNickel]

NIB!

 

[Tiffany Browne]

Hearsey Tires from Indiana. Hearsey was first a bicycle man. He was the first person to hire Major Taylor. Does anyone own a Hearsey bicycle?

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Hearsey was the 2nd person to hire Major Taylor, after Hay and Willits, but still very important to Major and to Indianapolis bicycle history! Thanks for sharing this. I saw one like it on eBay last year, and even the Hearsey descendants were floored at how much it went for!

 

[chitown]

 

[New Mexico Brant]

This one is at the Velocipede Museum in Newburgh, New York.

 

[BikemanDan]

Hearsey was the 2nd person to hire Major Taylor, after Hay and Willits, but still very important to Major and to Indianapolis bicycle history! Thanks for sharing this. I saw one like it on eBay last year, and even the Hearsey descendants were floored at how much it went for!

how old was the Major before working for Hearsey? i thought i seen somewhere that he was 14 when hired by Hearsey?

 

[Tiffany Browne]

how old was the Major before working for Hearsey? i thought i seen somewhere that he was 14 when hired by Hearsey?

This is debatable after really scrutinizing the timeline he suggests in his autobiography. He was not yet 12 when he went to work for Hay & Willits, and if my theory is correct, he was just shy of 13 when he went to work for Hearsey. Unfortunately, some of this minutiae may never be known for sure because of the understandably garbled memories Major shares of his childhood, versus corroborating evidence.

 

[cr250mark]

Cliffs Early Local bicycle shop Beanie
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