This is a vintage undivided back postcard, postally used and sent from Bristol, Connecticut. Postcard is a comic advertising postcard for the New Departure Coaster Brake and depicts a police officer using a
bicycle equipped with a New Departure hub to intervene in a fight between two children. The New Departure Manufacturing Company was a major innovator in the bicycle industry, helping to popularize the coaster brake as standard equipment on American bicycles after 1898. By 1907, their braking systems were widely advertised in magazines and on these collectible postcards. This postcard is #2 in a series of eight mailed out by the New Departure Manufacturing company. Note postcard has tape residue in corner. See pics for details of condition.Postcard may have normal wear associated with old postcards such as creases and bent corners. See pics for details and conditions.Reasonable offers will be considered.
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