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OBJECT TYPE: PROMOTIONAL
DATE: 1944
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1995.1134.001

MANUFACTURER: OFFSET PRINT & LITHO LTD.
MODEL: C.C.M BICYCLES
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: PAPER

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 66.0 cm
Width: 50.6 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Non-motorized Ground Transportation
Category: Cycles & cycling
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: OFFSET
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Context

Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Unknown
Canada: DRAWINGS ON BLOTTERS WERE CREATED BY CANADIAN CARTOONIST JIMMY FRISE (1891-1948). BORN NEAR LAKE SCUGOG, ONT, SELF TAUGHT ARTIST DREW POPULAR SERIES OF HALF-PAGE CARTOONS THAT SATIRIZED RURAL ONTARIO LIFE & APPEARED WEEKLY IN NEWSPAPERS FROM 1920S UNTIL HIS DEATH. THESE CARTOONS PROMOTED CANADIAN MADE C.C.M. BICYCLES.
Function: ADVERTISEMENT USED TO ADVERTISE PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN BEING RUN BY TWO MFR.S TOGETHER, IN THIS CASE, TO PROMOTE BICYCLES & TIRES.
Technical: CANADA CYCLE & MOTOR CO. WAS LARGEST MFR. &SUPPLIER OF BICYCLES IN CANADA FROM 1899 UNTIL MID 1950'S./ IN LATE 1880S, SCOTTISH VETERINARIAN JOHN DUNLOP DEVELOPED PNEUMATIC RUBBER TIRE. THESE REVOLUTIONIZED BICYCLE, MAKING RECENTLY DEVELOPED SAFETY BICYCLE INTO FASTER, LIGHTER & MORE COMFORTABLE VEHICLE.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: RED & BLACK LETTERING READS "FREE/ Boys and Girls/ Come in and get your/ Set of Blotters", "C.C.M./ BICYCLES", "DUNLOP/ TIRES", "Ride a/ C.C.M. BICYCLE/ Equipped with/ DUNLOP TIRES"
Missing: COMPLETE
Finish: WHITE PAPER WITH MULTICOLOURED PRINTING
Decoration: 1 LARGE & 4 SMALL MULTICOLOURED CARTOON DRAWINGS DEPICTING C.C.M BICYCLES IN USE BY BOYS, BOYS SCOUTS ETC.

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OFFSET PRINT & LITHO LTD., Poster, 1944, Artifact no. 1995.1134, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.1134.001/

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