Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes To my eye a very

To my eye a very sweet one

with these very thin posts carved very carefully on the diagonal

with this pup's spring wire spring tail a perfect complement to the spring wire body of the figure

In some ways seeming to reference Inuit masks

Bicycle Float With Sails! Flora Carnival 1898 Cabinet Card Photograph radial stripes To my eye a veryFloats, parades and carnivals of all sorts were certainly hot in the 1890s, and this bicycle powered sail with anchor, constructed of netting and flowers, is just my sort of float! Waving at top is a handmade flag reading Flora, and faintly along the bottom of the image is a descriptor: "Flora Carnival 1898 No. 53" I presume the No. 53 suggesting that there were at least 52 other floats in the parade! With a handsome young man at the pedals and