Today is the first day of National Bike Month and we had to share this 1890s bicycle brooch! It’s shown in great detail, complete with an oil lamp on the handlebar, and has several movable parts—the wheels spin, the pedals turn, and the fine bicycle chain turns the rear wheel when advanced. This is a brooch for someone who is at the cutting edge of female cycling fashion and chooses to make a statement about the new found freedom of woman at the height of the suffragist movement. #bicycle #bike #mfaboston #jewelry #bikemonth A post shared by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (@mfaboston) on May 1, 2014 at 11:00am PDT
Today is the first day of National Bike Month and we had to share this 1890s bicycle brooch! It’s shown in great detail, complete with an oil lamp on the handlebar, and has several movable parts—the wheels spin, the pedals turn, and the fine bicycle chain turns the rear wheel when advanced. This is a brooch for someone who is at the cutting edge of female cycling fashion and chooses to make a statement about the new found freedom of woman at the height of the suffragist movement. #bicycle #bike #mfaboston #jewelry #bikemonth
A post shared by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (@mfaboston) on May 1, 2014 at 11:00am PDT