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Sent within Berlin on October 7, 1896. Postmark Schöneberg. Subject: the birthday of the recipient Bertha J. - I think her 55th. - living in Moabit. Densely described (according to the writer, many named people (both male and female) congratulated Bertha.)

The Hannoverschen Gummiwerke Excelsior company was founded in 1862 in Hannover, which manufactured rubber products and thus also entered the pneumatic tyre market. These tyres became known under the brand name Excelsior. However, the company would merge into Continental AG in 1928, although that did not immediately mean the end of the Excelsior brand name. Today, however, we know these tyres as Continental.

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A daily newspaper report from 2 July 1898 that made me smile. Whether it ever became a success; I have not been able to find anything else about it.
I also like the solemn language of the time. I have tried to translate it as accurately as possible, but I fear some nuances are gone.

"A society of self-operating bicycle-preserving machinery has been established at Rotterdam.
This invention comprises a device which makes it impossible to take away bicycles placed therein.
The cyclist places his bicycle in the device,
puts a 2 1/2 cents coin in the opening near the lid,
lifts the lid,
revealing a key and the device encloses the rim with tyre of the bicycle by means of a steel ring,
the cyclist takes the key with him.
To retrieve his bicycle, he opens the cover,
puts the key back in place,
turns to the right for a moment,
while closing the cover again.
This company has requested the S.S. Company to be allowed to place some of these devices at the stations"

The Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS) was a former Dutch railway company that existed from 26 September 1863 to 31 December 1937. In 1917, the company together with the HIJSM (Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij) founded the stakes company Nederlandsche Spoorwegen. The two companies eventually merged to form N.V. Nederlandsche Spoorwegen on 1 January 1938 (the society that exists to this day).

Found on Delpher while searching for a half-brother of my grandfather who emigrated to South Africa. ;-)

www.delpher.nl is a Dutch free database containing millions of historical newspapers, books and periodicals from the collections of libraries, archives and academic institutions.

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'Correszpondenz-Karte' The photo caption was written in pencil on the smooth paper and actually impossible to read with the naked eye. But fortunately there are photo editing programmes these days.

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Drawing published in 1899 in a Dutch newspaper. Probably originally German and older.

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Burger's bicycles are strong, light, elegant
and are delivered with the strictest guarantee, starting at f 105.
New! Newly available!
Homemade
Burger's Health saddles
Already hugely successful, although only recently on the market.
First Dutch bicycle factory.
The representative for Rotterdam

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'Ladies and gentlemen, to whom we sent an invitation and who were not able to visit our cycling school on the day of opening, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that on this invitation they can come and see the school every day until January 15th, except Sunday, from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Cycling school "Simplex", Overtoom 85.' (Amsterdam)

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Advertising in the Preanger Bode from 26 june 1899.

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Aeolus was a type of bike of the Rotterdamsche Rijwielenfabriek (later Rijwielfabriek). They also made 'Tourist' bicycles.
The name Aeolus refers to the wind god of Greek and Roman mythology.

My gross translation of the stately, fairly worn text.

'Dear Sir.

These days I came back here from a trip by bike to Paris, across Belgium and Luxembourg and it is really a pleasure for me to be able to tell you how great my Aeolus Road Racer was, which you delivered to me at the beginning of this year.
As you know, I'm not a soft master for my car, and when a machine of just 11 kilograms of weight, which is riding 14 days over the worst Belgian setts roads and hills, stays so well kept and goes on so light, then I'm really surprised that there are still cyclists who give a little four hundred guilders for a foreign machine if they can go just as well for about half, often better at a Dutch factory.
Once again my dear Sir, I was pleased to be able to send you this unsolicited certificate.

(Was signed) W. Mertens.'

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Newpaper ad

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Within Japan sent postcard addressed to a lady.
Hard to read postmark. 1890's.

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Téléphone 8W de type "Motorola International 2700", toujours parfaitement fonctionnel avec certains réseaux français actuels ("Itinéris / Orange" & "SFR", en l'occurrence non compatible avec "Bouygues Telecom").

Ces téléphones de 8W ont la capacité de capter partout, même au fin fond de la campagne, la où les smartphones traditionnels (tel les Samsung SIII ou autre Iphone) ne reçoivent aucun réseau.

Ils peuvent aussi (cela peut toujours dépanner en cas de panne de batterie sur nos smartphones) lire et envoyer des SMS, accéder à nos répertoires et numéros etc.

Un haut-parleur et un micro sont présents dans l'habitacle pour le mode "main-libre", le son de l'autoradio étant mis en sourdine lors d'un appel.