Smith Pony Star bicycle
Smith Pony Star bicycle
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- Description
- This American Star bicycle was built by the H. B. Smith Machine Company, of Smithville, New Jersey. It bears the serial number 3025, which dates it to around 1885. The Star bicycle has a large rear wheel and a small front wheel, the opposite set-up of the Ordinary (penny-farthing) bicycle.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Bicycle
- Other Terms
- Bicycle; Road
- maker
- H. B. Smith Machine Co.
- ID Number
- TR.279005
- catalog number
- 279005
- accession number
- 55662
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert Atwater Smith
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Bicycling
- Transportation
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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